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In addition, a message was delivered by Denise Coghlan on behalf of the Nobel Peace Prize co-laureates the International Campaign to Ban Landmines and Jody Williams.

As well, a message was delivered by Olivier Vodoz, Vice [...] [...]

Mr. Gurirab referred to the IPU parliamentary message to the Conference, which included many of those issues.

[...] [...] March 2010, the High Commissioner highlighted [...] [...]

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The afternoon session will start by the election of the President and Vice-Presidents of the General Conference and the establishment of Commissions and Committees, followed by addresses by the Chairman of the Board and the Director-General to introduce the General Policy Debate.

In that message, Prime Minister Hatoyama urged all parties to the Treaty to bridge their differences in order to pave the way for a world without nuclear weapons in which atomic energy was used only for peaceful purposes.

On 27 May, in consultations of the whole, the Chair of the Committee established pursuant to resolution 1533 (2004) concerning the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ambassador Maria Luiza Ribeiro Viotti of Brazil, addressed the Council and presented the interim report of the Group of Experts on the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

As is shown in annex VIII, some executive heads have included ethics along with other issues in meetings held to address the staff at large, but this needs to be done more systematically.

During its coverage of the general debate of the General Assembly, United Nations Radio accompanied its stories with links to video footage of speakers addressing the session.

Failing to invest in our youth is a false economy,” said United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon in a message for International Youth Day 2011.

(f) Supported the Secretary-General’s Millennium Development Goals Advocacy Group by arranging for video messages to be taped and promoted online and facilitating media interviews for Group members in New York and in their home countries, through United Nations information centres, UNDP and other partners.

Special addresses were given by Mr. Felix Finkbeiner of Plant for the Planet Student Initiative and Ms. Wei Wei, famous Chinese singer and environmental advocate.

I would also like to thank Deputy Secretary-General Migiro for her statement, as well as Mr. Costa, Executive Director of the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime, and Mr. Sylvain-Goma, Secretary General of the Economic Community of Central African States, for their briefings.

The Department of Public Information covered United Nations messages and events held around the world to mark the day and worked with the United Nations Democracy Fund, the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), the United Nations Development Fund for Women (UNIFEM; now part of the United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women (UN-Women)), the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) and the Department of Political Affairs to launch a web portal on democracy in the six official languages of the Organization.

The Permanent Secretary for Development (Works), Mr. WAI Chi-sing, in his opening address pointed out that the Development Bureau brought in NEC from the United Kingdom with an aim to shifting from an adversarial culture between contracting parties in traditional contracts to a partnering and collaborative relationship.

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In her address to UNESCO, the Chair highlighted the important relationship that exists between indigenous peoples’ traditional knowledge and the UNESCO World Heritage processes owing to the conservation role that indigenous peoples play in the managing of World Heritage sites.

The President invited the Under-Secretary-General for Legal Affairs, Legal Counsel of the United Nations, to address the Meeting.

The messages of the Secretary-General are widely disseminated and specific activities are also undertaken in order to further the vision of the United Nations.

The Fourth United Nations Conference on the Least Developed Countries was opened on Monday, 9 May 2011, with an inaugural ceremony addressed by Abdullah Gül, President of the Republic of Turkey, President of the Conference; Ban Ki-moon, Secretary-General of the United Nations; Joseph Deiss of Switzerland, President of the sixty-fifth session of the General Assembly; Boni Yayi, President of the Republic of Benin; José Manuel Barroso, President of the European Commission; Jhala Nath Khanal, Prime Minister of the Federal Democratic Republic of Nepal and Chair of the Global Coordination Bureau of the Least Developed Countries; Pascal Lamy, Director-General of the World Trade Organization; and Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, Managing Director of the World Bank.

Dr. Kari Kveseth, Counsellor of Science and Higher Education at the Royal Norwegian Embassy emphasized the importance of youth exchange in science and research and expressed the Norwegian Embassy’s strong support in promoting exchange and understanding between university students in Norway and China.

Recognizing also the need to conduct multilateral negotiations with the aim of reaching agreement on concrete issues

The students‘ paragraphs can form the basis for a speech to be made on Peace Day 2011, either as the opening ceremony speech or as a speech to launch the 365-day countdown to the Global truce on Peace Day 2012.

The Human Rights Council should consider transmitting thematic reports of the Special Rapporteur to the Governing Council of UNEP, and request that the latter extend an invitation to the Special Rapporteur to address its annual sessions.

Metropolitan Amfilohije, the temporary administrator of the Serbian Orthodox Raška-Prizren Diocese, addressed the audience calling for peace and justice in Kosovo and appealing to the Kosovo authorities to make decisions that are acceptable to all.

Dr. Zhang Yilin, Deputy Managing Director and President Automotive of Schaeffler Greater China said in his speech that since setting up business in Anting in 2007, Schaeffler Greater China had received vigorous support from Jiading District, Anting Town, and the International Automobile City Development Company.

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Addressing the participants of the ceremony Minister of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine Borys Tarasyuk emphasized, “The commitment of the members to the 10 principles of the Global Compact makes these business companies important partners of the Government of Ukraine in the priority areas of observing human rights and labour standards, enhancing anti-corruption efforts and addressing environmental challenges”.