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  1. Secretary-General's remarks at Handover Ceremony of the Chairmanship of the Group of 77 and China [as delivered]

    ... Mission of Ecuador and my own Office. Ecuador is also a country, as you know, that is very dear to my heart.  For ten years as a ... country and not the agenda defined by donors that, in each moment, may have different objectives - sometimes even contradictory ...

  2. Secretary-General's Tip O'Neill Lecture entitled "Learning the Lessons of Peacebuilding"

    ... process of building peace in war-torn societies? Such a process must, by its very nature, be deeply rooted in local communities and ... The fifth lesson, manage expectations. There is a moment, when the killing stops, when everything seems possible. Expectations ...

  3. Deputy Secretary-General's remarks at Building Bridges Summit [as delivered]

    ... guests, Colleagues in the room, Friends, It is a real pleasure to be with you today at this Summit to kickstart Building ... point is clear: we are at a breakdown or breakthrough moment. But while investments in the SDGs are attracting more money than ...

  4. Secretary-General's remarks at "25 Years after Chernobyl Catastrophe: Safety for the Future" conference

    ... Command Centre and the encouraging progress in building a new shelter for the damaged reactor. It was very impressive, ... They need our continued support. This moment and this place also compel us to look even further ahead. ...

  5. Remarks at the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) by the UN High Commissioner for Refugees, Ruud Lubbers, and the Executive Director of the World Food Programme, James Morris (unofficial transcript)

    ... Director of World Food Programme, are going to sign a Memorandum of Understanding, reaffirming and strengthening the partnership ... working in the situation mainly here in Africa at this moment to bring food to the people. Its progression and progress. We go further ...

  6. Deputy Secretary-General's remarks at event on the Rwandan Genocide

    ... alert and mobilize the international community.  In 1993, a United Nations Special Rapporteur warned that all the precursors of genocide ... and the situation remains volatile.  But, for the moment, people are largely safe and the United Nations is doing its utmost to ...

  7. Note to correspondents: Transcript of joint stakeout by UN Special Envoy for Syria, Mr. Staffan de Mistura and UN Senior Advisor, Mr. Jan Egeland

    ... and I cannot go into much more details until there is a clear outcome from it, but you should know that. We ourselves are going ... cessation of hostilities is not really a major issue at the moment, but needs to be kept alive, in order to be able to make sure when and ...

  8. Secretary-General's address at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs - "Argentina and the World"

    ... the darkest era of Argentina. At the same time, let us send a strong message of hope to many people around the world whose human rights are ... let us make the most of this historic multilateral moment for the benefit of Argentina and the people of the world. ...

  9. Secretary-General's remarks at the International Monetary and Financial Committee [as delivered]

    ... Monetary and Financial Committee.    We meet at a time of enormous uncertainty.   As Finance Ministers and Central Bank ... is that climate change is running faster than we are.  In a moment in which we see a trend in several parts of the world to diminish their ...

  10. Secretary-General's address to Stanley Foundation Conference on the Responsibility to Protect

    ... participants, ladies and gentlemen. It's a great honour and pleasure for me to participate in this very important ... are no roads except by air mobility. At the critical moment, I was reduced to begging for replacements from neighboring countries ...