Middle East situation/Palestine question – Opening of annual GA debate – Press release (excerpts)

Plenary

9^th & 10^th Meetings (AM & PM)

OPENING ANNUAL GENERAL ASSEMBLY DEBATE, SECRETARY-GENERAL URGES MEMBER STATES

TO PRESS IN TACKLING POVERTY, TERRORISM, HUMAN RIGHTS ABUSES, CONFLICTS

But International Community Must Begin to Remedy

‘Distressing Failures’ on Nuclear Disarmament, Non-Proliferation, He Warns

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Background

The sixtieth United Nations General Assembly opened its annual general debate this morning with a discussion of Secretary-General Kofi Annan’s report on the Organization’s work (document A/60/1).

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NOBUTAKA MACHIMURA, Minister for Foreign Affairs of Japan, …

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… He said the United Nations must be equipped with a better peacebuilding capacity.  The reconstruction effort in Gaza after the Israeli withdrawal would be crucial, and Japan had implemented over $110 million this year alone to see the resumption of the Road Map. 

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