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  1. Q & A following the Secretary-General's address at the Truman Presidential Museum and Library

    ... speech as Secretary-General for what some are seeing as a fairly pointed attack on the US foreign policy, particularly here in this ... If you do not have effective coordination from the moment the crisis strikes, your effort to deal with it is likely to go wrong. ...

  2. Deputy Secretary-General's video message to the AWLN Men’s Summit on Positive Masculinities

    ... Excellencies, Distinguished Guests, Today kicks-off a global moment of awareness for ending gender-based violence — the 16 Days of ...

  3. Deputy Secretary-General's video message to the Association of Pacific Rim Universities Annual Presidents' Meeting

    ... of Pacific Rim Universities. Your meeting arrives at a moment of truth — the midpoint of the 2030 Agenda on Sustainable Development. ...

  4. Secretary-General's remarks at the Climate Ambition Summit [bilingual, as delivered, scroll down for all-English version]

    ... If we don’t change course, we may be headed for a catastrophic temperature rise of more than 3 degrees this century. Can ... climatique. Dear friends of our planet, This is a moment of truth.  But it is also a moment of hope. More and more countries ...

  5. Secretary-General's Statement on the Death of Nelson Mandela

    ... 05 December 2013 Nelson Mandela was a singular figure on the global stage -- a man of quiet dignity and towering ... elected President of a free South Africa was a defining moment. The Assembly has declared 18 July, his birthday, “Nelson Mandela ...

  6. Readout of Secretary-General's Remarks Made at G8 Summit

    ... that the international community must act with unity and in a consistent and coordinated manner. He urged increased support for ... Obama, and asked the directly concerned parties to seize the moment and take risks for peace.   On African regional crises, the ...

  7. Secretary-General's remarks by video link to the Tallberg Forum

    ... But I think it is fair to say that you have put on quite a show. Maybe you should consider taking it on the road. As you may know, ... issues that are on the agenda of the United Nations at the moment. Two important new bodies have just begun work: the first is the ...

  8. Secretary-General's message on the Day of Remembrance for All Victims of Chemical Warfare [scroll down for French version]

    ... of the first time chemical weapons were deployed on a large scale in battle. The events in Ypres in 1915 should be a distant ... in the country has commenced.  This has been one bright moment in an otherwise devastating conflict which must urgently end for the ...

  9. Secretary-General's remarks at Closing Ceremony for the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY) [as delivered]

    ... Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia in 1993 was a ground-breaking moment.    It had been close to half a century since the Nuremberg and ...

  10. Secretary-General's remarks at wreath laying ceremony commemorating 57th anniversary of the death of Dag Hammarskjöld

    ... I had the immense and inspiring honour of taking part in a Security Council retreat at the home of Dag Hammarskjöld in the south of ... right thing for our one world.   Please join me in a moment of silence, paying tribute to Dag Hammarskjöld. ...