Sentences with phrase «unite general secretary»

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The United Nations» main Twitter page quoted Secretary - General Antonio Guterres as saying, «Climate change is undeniable.

** BOAO, China - Chinese President Xi Jinping and a list of foreign leaders, including Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte, Pakistani Prime Minister Shahid Khaqan Abbasi, United Nations Secretary - General Antonio Guterres and IMF's managing director Christine Lagarde are to speak at the opening of the annual Boao Forum in Hainan province - 0130 GMT.

In Colbert has already welcomed tech titans such as Apple (AAPL) CEO Tim Cook, Tesla Motors (TSLA) CEO Elon Musk, and Uber CEO Travis Kalanick, as well as United Nations Secretary - General Ban Ki - moon and U.S. Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer.

If the United Nations would like a list of incredible extraordinary women that would formidably carry out this role, we could surely be able to come up with a list from which the Secretary - General could choose.

The Committee on Foreign Investments has nine members, including the secretaries of the treasury, state, defense, homeland security, commerce and energy; the attorney general; and representatives from two White House offices (the United States Trade Representative and the Office of Science and Technology Policy).

António Guterres, the former prime minister of Portugal and UN high commissioner for refugees, took over on January 1 for a five - year term as the United Nations secretary general.

The Secretary - General of the United Nations, Mr. Ban Ki - moon, officially opened the event by stating «The world can not continue on the current course.

United Nations Secretary - General Ban Ki - moon today announced the appointment of Lise Kingo as Executive Director of the United Nations Global Compact.

If you tell me, as a mere human being, to «make peace», then my best bet might be to become Secretary - General of the United Nations and learn to negotiate very well.

Thomas Gass, assistant secretary - general for policy coordination and interagency affairs in the Department of Economic and Social Affairs at the United Nations, talked with Global Finance about the UN's new Sustainable Development Goals and how the private sector can help.

Nawal Alhawsawi, Founder, Soundheart Phumzile Mlambo - Ngcuka, United Nations Under - Secretary - General and Executive Director of UN Women Interviewer: Maithreyi Seetharaman, Fortune

Rae Kwon Chung, principal advisor on climate change of the United Nations Secretary - General, came up with the figures during

FILE PHOTO: Saudi Arabia's Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman Al Saud is seen during a meeting with U.N Secretary - General Antonio Guterres at the United Nations headquarters in the Manhattan borough of New York City, New York, U.S. March 27, 2018.

He portrayed himself as a champion of free trade and world order, speaking to a group that included Ban Ki - moon, the former secretary general of the United Nations, and Pascal Lamy, the former director general of the World Trade Organization, and his words helped move markets around the world.

The PRI initiative began in early 2005 when the United Nations Secretary - General, Kofi Annan, invited a group of the world's 20 largest institutional investors from 12 countries to join a process to develop the Principles for Responsible Investment (PRI).

A spokesman for the UN Secretary - General Ban Ki Moon said: «The Secretary - General is alarmed by the preliminary findings of a fact finding investigation by the United Nations Mission in South Sudan (UNMISS) into the attack on Hotel Terrain in Juba on 11 July, in which one person was killed and several civilians were raped and brutally beaten by men in uniform.

The former Secretary - General of the United Nations and Coptic Christian Boutros Boutros - Ghali has died... More

Ban Ki - moon, the United Nations secretary general, also released a statement condemning «in the strongest terms the systematic persecution of minority populations in Iraq» and particularly the threat against Christians.»

The great St John Paul said that religious freedom is «the basis of all other freedoms and is inseparably tied to them by reason of that very dignity which is the human person» (letter to the Secretary General of the United Nations, 1978).

This proposal is backed by, inter alia, the World Federation of United Nations Associations and former UN Secretary General Jávier Pérez de Cuellar.

Strong is a Canadian businessman, former Executive Director of the United Nations Environment Program (UNEP), and Secretary - General both of the 1972 Stockholm Conference and the 1992 Rio Earth Summit.

They also had plans to kill Mubarak and Butros Butros Ghali, the Egyptian who served as general secretary of the United Nations.

In an address at Cambridge University on June 5, 1958 Dag Hammarskjold, the Secretary General of the United Nations, echoes Buber's call for renewed «contact and communications across geographical and political boundaries.»

With regard to «holy worldliness», Bishop Paulose quotes from the diary of Dag Hammarskjold, the second Secretary - General of the United Nations, Markings, «In our era, the road to holiness necessarily passes through the world of action».

There are also reports from the island of Halmahera in North Maluku of Christian militia training to fight Muslims.Last week Konrad Raiser, general secretary of the World Council of Churches, in Geneva, called on the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, Mary Robinson, to make an immediate, investigative visit to the Maluku islands.

Finally, Secretary General of the United Nations U Thant has recently reported a study made for a Global Conference on Man's Environment in 1972.

Later he was General Secretary of the Board of Higher Education and Ministry of The United Methodist Church and President of Alaska Pacific University.

The Secretary General of the United Nations warned of growing inequality around the world during a major speech at Methodist Central Hall.

The fighting paused Thursday (May 23) for the arrival of United Nations Secretary - General Ban Ki - moon in the city of Goma in eastern Congo, according to the BBC.

CHAMPIONS INCLUDE: Dave Lewis, Group Chief Executive, Tesco (Chair) Erik Solheim, Executive Director, United Nations Environment (Co-Chair) Vytenis Andriukaitis, European Commissioner for Health and Food Safety Peter Bakker, President, World Business Council for Sustainable Development John Bryant, Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer, Kellogg Company Paul Bulcke, Chairman of the Board of Directors, Nestlé Nguyen Xuan Cuong, Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development, Vietnam Michael La Cour, Managing Director, IKEA Food Services AB Wiebe Draijer, Chairman of the Executive Board, Rabobank Shenggen Fan, Director General, International Food Policy Research Institute Peter Freedman, Managing Director, The Consumer Goods Forum Louise Fresco, President of the Executive Board, Wageningen University & Research Liz Goodwin, Senior Fellow and Director, Food Loss and Waste, World Resources Institute Marcus Gover, Chief Executive Officer, Waste and Resources Action Programme Hans Hoogeveen, Ambassador and Permanent Representative of the Netherlands to the UN Organizations for Food and Agriculture Gilbert Houngbo, President, International Fund for Agricultural Development Selina Juul, Chairman of the Board and Founder, Stop Wasting Food Movement in Denmark Yolanda Kakabadse, President, WWF International Sam Kass, Former White House Chef, Founder of TROVE and Venture Partner, Acre Venture Partners Michel Landel, Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of the Executive Committee, Sodexo Esben Lunde Larsen, Minister of Environment and Food, Denmark José Antonio Meade, Minister of Finance, Mexico Gina McCarthy, Former Administrator, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Denise Morrison, President and Chief Executive Officer, Campbell Soup Company Kanayo Nwanze, Former President, International Fund for Agricultural Development Rafael Pacchiano, Minister of the Environment and Natural Resources, Mexico Paul Polman, Chief Executive Officer, Unilever Juan Lucas Restrepo Ibiza, Chairman, Global Forum on Agricultural Research Judith Rodin, Former President, The Rockefeller Foundation Oyun Sanjaasuren, Chair, Global Water Partnership Lindiwe Majele Sibanda, Vice President for Country Support, Policy and Delivery, Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa Feike Sijbesma, Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of the Managing Board, Royal DSM Rajiv Shah, President, The Rockefeller Foundation Andrew Steer, President and Chief Executive Officer, World Resources Institute Achim Steiner, Administrator, United Nations Development Programme Tristram Stuart, Founder, Feedback Rhea Suh, President, Natural Resources Defense Council Rhoda Peace Tumusiime, Former Commissioner for Rural Economy and Agriculture, The African Union Sunny Verghese, Co-Founder, Group Managing Director & Chief Executive Officer, Olam International Tom Vilsack, Former Secretary, U.S. Department of Agriculture Senzeni Zokwana, Minister of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries, Republic of South Africa

Itai Matamombe (left), an advisor to the United Nations Secretary - General on global education, with a Barnard College student moderator (right) leading a thoughtful discussion after the film.

Dave Lewis, Group Chief Executive, Tesco (Chair) Erik Solheim, Executive Director, United Nations Environment (Co-Chair) Vytenis Andriukaitis, European Commissioner for Health and Food Safety Peter Bakker, President, World Business Council for Sustainable Development John Bryant, Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer, Kellogg Company Paul Bulcke, Chairman of the Board of Directors, Nestlé Wiebe Draijer, Chairman of the Executive Board, Rabobank Shenggen Fan, Director General, International Food Policy Research Institute Peter Freedman, Managing Director, The Consumer Goods Forum Louise Fresco, President of the Executive Board, Wageningen University & Research Liz Goodwin, Senior Fellow and Director, Food Loss and Waste, World Resources Institute Marcus Gover, Chief Executive Officer, Waste and Resources Action Programme Hans Hoogeveen, Ambassador and Permanent Representative of the Netherlands to the UN Organizations for Food and Agriculture Selina Juul, Chairman of the Board and Founder, Stop Wasting Food Movement in Denmark Yolanda Kakabadse, President, WWF International Sam Kass, Senior Food Analyst at NBC News and former U.S. White House Chef Michael La Cour, Managing Director, IKEA Food Services AB Michel Landel, Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of the Executive Committee, Sodexo Esben Lunde Larsen, Minister of Environment and Food, Denmark José Antonio Meade, Minister of Finance, Mexico Gina McCarthy, Former Administrator, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Denise Morrison, President and Chief Executive Officer, Campbell Soup Company Kanayo Nwanze, Former President, International Fund for Agricultural Development Rafael Pacchiano, Secretary of the Environment and Natural Resources, Mexico Paul Polman, Chief Executive Officer, Unilever Juan Lucas Restrepo Ibiza, Chairman, Global Forum on Agricultural Research Judith Rodin, Former President, The Rockefeller Foundation Oyun Sanjaasuren, Chair, Global Water Partnership Lindiwe Majele Sibanda, Vice President for Country Support, Policy and Delivery, Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa Feike Sijbesma, Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of the Managing Board, Royal DSM Andrew Steer, President and Chief Executive Officer, World Resources Institute Achim Steiner, Administrator, United Nations Development Programme Tristram Stuart, Founder, Feedback Rhea Suh, President, Natural Resources Defense Council Rhoda Peace Tumusiime, Former Commissioner for Rural Economy and Agriculture, The African Union Sunny Verghese, Co-Founder, Group Managing Director & Chief Executive Officer, Olam International Tom Vilsack, Former Secretary, U.S. Department of Agriculture Senzeni Zokwana, Minister of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries, Republic of South Africa

President of the 70th Session of the UN General Assembly Secretary General of the United Nations Your Excellences, Heads of State and Government Delegates to the Assembly Ladies and gentlemen

The President said, a leader is supposed to unite and move his party forward, saying «if this small party you can't handle, you have sacked your party chairman, general secretary, Agona West chairman, Cape Coast chairman....

I pay tribute today to Egypt and the United States and to the UN secretary general for their role in bringing about a ceasefire in Gaza, and we now need to build on it to bring about a lasting peace, including an end to the smuggling of weapons and the opening up of Gaza for trade as well as for aid.

That is why I have encouraged Antonio Guterres, the new UN Secretary General, to pursue an ambitious reform programme, focusing the United Nations on its core functions of peacekeeping, conflict prevention and resolution.

His Excellency Mr Ban Ki - moon, current Secretary - General of the United Nations, gave this year's Cyril Foster Lecture on «Human Protection and the 21st Century United Nations» on 2 February at Oxford's Examination Schools, hosted by the Department of Politics and International Relations.

The United Nations secretary general's spokesman said Antonio Guterres was «deeply concerned» at the announcement and called on the other signatories to abide by their commitments.

A statement issued by the Senior Special Assistant to the President, Garba Shehu, in Abuja on Saturday, said during the course of the visit, Buhari would join the Secretary General of the United Nations, Mr. Ban Ki - moon, Crown Prince Mohammed bin Zayed al - Nahyan of Abu Dhabi and other participants as a special guest of honour at this year's edition of the World Future Energy Summit.

The deputy secretary - general of the United Nations says the Trump administration must be «brought back to the table» on climate change, despite repeatedly pledging to pull out of an agreement aiming to reduce carbon emissions.

When Kofi Annan was named Secretary - General of the United Nations, the world knew him as a Ghanaian, the first black African to ever hold that title.

After Republican Congressman F. Bradford Morse of the neighboring 5th district announced his retirement and then resignation to become Under - Secretary - General for Political and General Assembly Affairs at the United Nations.

Thornberry was born in north Surrey to Cedric Thornberry, an international lawyer who was a United Nations Assistant Secretary - General and worked as a consultant for NATO, [6] and Sallie Thornberry, a teacher.

Recent remarks made by former United Nations Secretary - General Kofi Annan, advising Kenyans not to vote for presidential candidates who face trial at the International Criminal Court have caused a storm, as the two politicians concerned prepare to announce who their coalition will nominate to stand.

Recall, that the Senate had on May 3rd confirmed the new ministers, Stephen Ocheni (Kogi) and Suleiman Hassan (Gombe) to replace the late Minister of State for Labour, Mr. James Ocholi (SAN), who died in an accident on March 6, 2016; and Amina Mohammed, who was recently appointed as the Deputy Secretary - General of the United Nations.

In a related development, the General Secretary of the United Cadres Front, Felix Nyarku says the engagement of the three retired South African policeman to train some supporters of the NPP in the run up to the 2016 election is abominable.

At 4:30 p.m., NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio and NYC First Lady Chirlane will hold a closed - press meeting with United Nations Secretary - General António Guterres.

The news was welcomed by top officials at the United Nations, where Secretary General António Guterres has said he plans to attend the opening ceremonies.

He called for the UN secretary general to create dialogue between the United States and North Korea to «wind down the deeply dangerous confrontation over the Korean peninsula», although even here he carefully avoided any criticism of the North Korean dynastic dictator, who has starved and brutalised his own people while creating a long - range nuclear capability.

Listowell Nana Kusi - Poku, who resigned as the General Secretary of United Front Party (UFP) recently, said he personally presented all necessary signed documents to the Electoral Commission [EC] to begin registration process of the party.