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PRESS RELEASE: “Save Our Ocean” Exhibition Opens at the United Nations
PRESS RELEASE “Save Our Ocean” Exhibition Opens at the United Nations The world’s Ocean takes centre stage this month with new exhibitions now on display at United Nations Headquarters and across the five boroughs of New York City. The exhibitions were launched by the Office of the President of the General Assembly to coincide […]

MEDIA ADVISORY: SDG Action Event on Innovation
MEDIA ADVISORY The adoption of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development saw world leaders commit to 17 comprehensive, integrated and ambitious Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The world in which the SDGs were adopted is radically different from that of the Millennium Development Goals. Giant leaps in technological advances are converging to make the unthinkable […]

Building Sustainable Peace for All
Op-Ed Building Sustainable Peace for All by H.E. Peter Thomson, President of the UN General Assembly In the aftermath of World War II, with the colossal loss of life and destruction weighing upon them, fifty world leaders bound by a shared commitment to peace, came together in San Francisco and pledged themselves to a common […]

SDG Media Zone at COP 22: SDGs Implementation and Youth Engagement
H.E. Dessima Williams – Special Adviser to the President of the 71st Session of the General Assembly on Implementing the Sustainable Development Goals and Youth Engagement at SDG Media Zone at COP22 in Marrakesh

President of the UN General Assembly to give lecture at Cadi Ayyad university
MEDIA ADVISORY President of the UN General Assembly to give lecture at Cadi Ayyad university UNITED NATIONS, New York, 13 November 2016 — The President of the United Nations General Assembly, H.E. Peter Thomson, will visit Cadi Ayyad University in Marrakech on 17 November 2016, from 12:00pm to 1:00pm to brief students about the […]

Implementing the SDG’s – Universal Push to transform our world – SDG Media Zone

Implementing the SDG’s – Universal Push to transform our world – SDG Media Zone

Interview with Xinhua on sustainable development and China
UNGA President Peter Thomson: China acts as main player in sustainable development 19 September 2016
