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GENEVA , Switzerland (AFP) — The UN’s Syria envoy said Thursday he planned to hold another round of peace talks next month, but called for a stuttering ceasefire to be “revitalized” before setting a date, as at least 20 civilians were killed in second city Aleppo. Staffan de Mistura made the comments after briefing the United Nations Security Council on the talks, which he said had made gains despite escalating violence on the ground that […]
WELLINGTON, New Zealand (Reuters) – New Zealand Prime Minister, John Key, on Tuesday (April 5) threw his support behind his predecessor, Helen Clark, following her announcement she would campaign to be the next United Nation secretary-general. New Zealand submitted a letter on Monday to the president of the 193-member General Assembly formally nominating Clark, who heads the U.N. Development Program, as a candidate to succeed Ban Ki-moon as secretary-general. “There are major global challenges […]
UNITED NATIONS, Sept. 22 (PNA/Xinhua) — With more than 200 million school-aged children unable to read and write, the UN’s new Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) will focus on access to quality education, the executive director of UNICEF, said Monday. “There are 250 million children around the world of fourth and fifth grade age who can not read and write or do their numbers,” Anthony Lake told reporters here. The new SDGs — a set of […]
