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World leaders in General Assembly stress importance of conflict prevention, mediation during High-Level Debate on building, sustaining peace at 83rd plenary meeting.

Briefing by the International, Impartial & Independent Mechanism to Assist in the Investigation & Prosecution of Persons Responsible for the Most Serious Crimes under Intl. Law Committed in the Syrian Arab Republic since March 2011 - IIIM/PGA.

Briefing by the International, Impartial & Independent Mechanism to Assist in the Investigation & Prosecution of Persons Responsible for the Most Serious Crimes under Intl. Law Committed in the Syrian Arab Republic since March 2011 - IIIM/PGA.

Traffic deaths, injuries, major health, development concern, delegates stress, as General Assembly adopts resolution on improving global road safety at 82nd plenary meeting.

Population and Development Commission opens session amid calls to unleash huge growth potential of urban areas, especially for world’s 1 billion migrants at 2nd plenary meeting.

General Assembly adopts five texts, including on staff air travel, high-level meeting concerning tuberculosis at 81st plenary meeting.

Speaking at the opening of the International Symposium on Agroecology, Director-General of the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) José Graziano da Silva said, “We need to promote a transformative change in the way we produce and consume food. We need to put forward sustainable food systems that offer health and nutritious food, and also preserve the environment,” adding that agroecology can offer several contributions to this process. FAO

Nefarious impacts of slavery, transatlantic slave trade persist today, speakers stress as General Assembly observes international day amid calls to end racism, at 80th plenary. Commemoration of the abolition of slavery and the transatlantic slave trade Commemorative meeting of the General Assembly to mark the International Day of Remembrance of the Victims of Slavery and the Transatlantic Slave Trade Follow-up to the 2013 high-level meeting of the General Assembly on nuclear disarmament: draft decision (A/72/L.44 (to be issued) Remarks by the Secretary-General

High-level event to launch the International Decade for Action, “Water for Sustainable Development” (2018–2028) Plenary segment

Racial equality ‘Is Under Attack’, experts warn General Assembly, urging states to mark International Day by stamping out discrimination, intolerance at 79th plenary meeting.