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Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon.

Opposition Nigerian politician Hafsat Baba said Sunday’s suicide bombing in northern Nigeria that killed two and wounded more than 45 underscores the increasingly urgent need to address the cause of the violence.

China has canceled a ceremony marking the 40th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic ties with Japan.

Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon with Joint Special Representative of the UN and League of Arab States on the Syrian crisis.

Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon rings the Peace Bell at the annual ceremony marking the International Day of Peace.

Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon (second right) launches the MDG Gap Task Force Report 2012.

The United States, Britain and France said Thursday that Iran’s supply of weapons to the Assad regime in Syria is unacceptable and must stop. U.N. ambassadors for the three powers also criticized the Islamic Republic for failing to stop enriching uranium and not seriously engaging with them and others in talks on its suspect nuclear program.

Moldova's Minister of Foreign Affairs and European Integration Iurie Leanca (l) speaking with the representative of the Irish Chair-in-Office of the OSCE, Minister for European Affairs Lucinda Creighton, Chisinau, 20 September 2012.