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Thursday, February 17, 2011
UN News: Middle East protests call for bold reforms, not repression – UN chief , Posted by Menelik Zeleke
Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today called for an immediate end to violence against peaceful protesters in Bahrain and said he would be contacting leaders in the Middle East and North Africa to urge them to institute bold reforms, not repression.
“I am disturbed by all these violent means of trying to disperse demonstrators, the freedom of expression, freedom of access to information, particularly the journalists,” he told reporters at United Nations Headquarters in New York.
Full story: http://www.un.org/apps/news/story.asp?NewsID=37554&Cr=protests&Cr1 =
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