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Jan Eliasson

Type: Person

Name: Jan Eliasson (Jan Kenneth Eliasson)

Title: Politican

Organization: Government of Sweden

Date of Birth: 1940-09-17

Place of Birth: Gothenburg

Nationality: Sweden

Fact Sheet: Biography for Jan Eliasson

First reported 14 hours ago - Updated 14 hours ago - 1 reports

European Union

The EU development ministers discuss post-2015 millennium development goals and

Minister for International Development Heidi Hautala will attend the Development Foreign Affairs Council in Brussels on 28 November. The main topics of the meeting will include the global development agenda beyond 2015 and the programming of EU development ... [Published Valtioneuvosto - 14 hours ago]

Entities: European Union, Jan Eliasson, Heidi Hautala, Finland, United Nations

First reported May 23 2013 - Updated May 23 2013 - 1 reports

Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change

Disaster risk must be part of new development goals

Students hold on to the side steel bars of a collapsed bridge as they cross a river to get to school at Sanghiang Tanjung village in Lebak regency, Indonesia's Banten village on January 19, 2012. REUTERS/BeawihartaGENEVA (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - ... [Published TrustLaw - May 23 2013]

Entities: Disaster, Disaster Risk Reduction, Jan Eliasson, Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change

First reported May 23 2013 - Updated May 23 2013 - 1 reports

Jan Eliasson

Foreign minister speaks with UN deputy secretary-general about international legal order

News item | 23-05-2013Foreign minister Frans Timmermans today met with UN deputy secretary-general Jan Eliasson. They discussed the UN's efforts with regard to the crises in Syria and Mali as well as the reconstruction of Afghanistan and the Netherlands' ... [Published Noodls - May 23 2013]

Entities: Jan Eliasson, United Nations, Frans Timmermans (Government of the Netherlands)

First reported May 23 2013 - Updated May 23 2013 - 1 reports

Agency for Technical Cooperation and Development

Pakistan: An initiative to tackle poor sanitation

Source: Agency for Technical Cooperation and DevelopmentCountry: Pakistan ISLAMABAD, Pakistan [ACTED News] Poor sanitation costs Pakistan over $4.2 billion or 6.3% of its GDP, according to the United Nations Deputy Secretary-General, Jan Eliasson. Water-borne ... [Published ReliefWeb - Latest Updates - May 23 2013]

Entities: Sanitation, Pakistan, Agency for Technical Cooperation and Development, Jan Eliasson

First reported May 23 2013 - Updated May 23 2013 - 1 reports

Calls mount for disaster risk management for businesses

Disasters are having a growing impact on businesses.The 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake and the Chao Phraya River floods in Thailand have focused attention on the growing impact of disasters on the private sector.Businesses suffer direct losses when ... [Published Jakarta Post - May 23 2013]

Entities: Disaster, Japan Earthquake & Tsunami, Paul Robertson

First reported May 22 2013 - Updated May 22 2013 - 1 reports

United Nations

World must face up to climate-driven disasters: UN

Agence France-Presse . GenevaThe world needs to wake up to the risk of a spike in natural disasters linked to climate change and strive to find ways to cut the human and economic cost, the United Nations warned on Tuesday.‘We live in a time of huge natural ... [Published New Age Bangladesh - May 22 2013]

Entities: Disaster, United Nations, Jan Eliasson, Geneva

First reported May 22 2013 - Updated May 22 2013 - 1 reports

International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies

World urged to speed up action on disaster reduction

Resident Taylor Tennyson sits in the front yard of her family home which was left devastated by a tornado in Moore, Oklahoma, in the outskirts of Oklahoma City May 21, 2013. REUTERS/Adrees LatifGENEVA (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - The world is still ... [Published TrustLaw - May 22 2013]

Entities: Disaster, International Federation of Red Cross and Red C..., Resilience, Disaster Risk Reduction

First reported May 21 2013 - Updated May 22 2013 - 2 reports

Switzerland hosts international conference on disaster risk reduction

GENEVA: At the United Nations here, m inisters, ambassadors, mayors and other stakeholders from across the world met on Tuesday to draw a strategy on disaster risk reduction which will replace or revise the existing which was agreed upon by all UN member ... [Published Economic Times - May 21 2013]

Entities: Disaster Risk Reduction, United Nations, Disaster, Switzerland

First reported May 22 2013 - Updated May 22 2013 - 1 reports

Hezbollah sends new fighters to...

DAMASCUS: Elite Hezbollah fighters poured across the border from Lebanon into Syria yesterday, a watchdog and others said, bolstering Syrian regime forces battling to retake the key rebel stronghold of Qusayr.Washington expressed concern about Hezbollah’s ... [Published Qatar Peninsula - May 22 2013]

Entities: Hizballah, Jan Eliasson, Syria, Lebanon

First reported May 22 2013 - Updated May 22 2013 - 1 reports

UN calls on businesses to help limit risks from disaster

The United Nation (UN) wants the private sector to share responsibility in reducing risks of both natural and man-made disasters.During a biennial conference on disaster risk reduction on Tuesday, UN deputy secretary general Jan Eliasson said that there ... [Published Jakarta Post - May 22 2013]

Entities: Disaster, United Nations, Jan Eliasson

First reported May 22 2013 - Updated May 22 2013 - 1 reports

Minister Of Foreign Affairs Responds To UN Comments On Somaliland

Minister of Foreign Affairs Dr Mohamed Abdilahi Omar responds to comments made by UN Deputy Secretary General Jan Eliasson on 9 May 2013.Below are the verbatim excerpts of the Dr Omar Communication to UN Secretary General Ban Ki MoonH.E. Mr. Ban Ki-M ... [Published Somaliland Times - May 22 2013]

Entities: Somalia, United Nations, Dr Mohamed Abdilahi Omar, Jan Eliasson

First reported May 21 2013 - Updated May 21 2013 - 3 reports

Madagascar: Ban concerned by latest electoral developments

United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon shares the concerns expressed earlier by the Southern African Development Community (SADC) and the African Union over the latest developments in the electoral process in Madagascar, according to the spokesperson ... [Published Sify - May 21 2013]

Entities: Madagascar, Southern African Development Community, Lalao Ravalomanana, Andry Rajoelina

Quotes

...risk reduction we are laying the basis for better development," Jan Eliasson, U N deputy secretary-general, told reporters earlier in the week. "i would claim that disaster risk reduction has to be part of the (post-2015) development agenda because it is the poor, it is the most vulnerable who are most affected."

Disaster risk must be part of new development goals [Published TrustLaw - May 23 2013]

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CALENDRIER du 27 mai au 2 juin 2013 [Published European Commission - 11 hours ago]
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Disaster risk must be part of new development g... [Published TrustLaw - May 23 2013]
Foreign minister speaks with UN deputy secretar... [Published Noodls - May 23 2013]
Pakistan: An initiative to tackle poor sanitation [Published ReliefWeb - Latest Updates - May 23 2013]
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Calls mount for disaster risk management for bu... [Published Jakarta Post - May 23 2013]
World must face up to climate-driven disasters: UN [Published New Age Bangladesh - May 22 2013]
World urged to speed up action on disaster redu... [Published TrustLaw - May 22 2013]
Drumbeat: May 22, 2013 [Published The Oil Drum - Discussions about Energy and Our ... - May 22 2013]
DISASTER RISK REDUCTION: DISASTER RISK REDUCTIO... [Published Noodls - May 22 2013]
DISASTER RISK REDUCTION: 'NO SAFER TOMORROW' WI... [Published Noodls - May 22 2013]
DISASTER RISK REDUCTION: SMALL ISLAND DEVELOPIN... [Published Noodls - May 22 2013]
World: Les petits états insulaires en développe... [Published ReliefWeb - Latest Updates - May 22 2013]
UN Should Be Held Accountable For Its Criminal ... [Published Somaliland Times - May 22 2013]
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UN calls on businesses to help limit risks from... [Published Jakarta Post - May 22 2013]
World: Small Island Developing States, Increasi... [Published ReliefWeb - Latest Updates - May 22 2013]
Hezbollah sends new fighters to... [Published Qatar Peninsula - May 22 2013]
World: ‘No Safer Tomorrow’ without Planning Tod... [Published ReliefWeb - Latest Updates - May 22 2013]
UN calls for ‘credible’ Syrian players at Genev... [Published The Gulf Today - May 21 2013]
Hezbollah sends new fighters to bloody Syria ba... [Published Channel NewsAsia - May 21 2013]
World: Disaster Risk Reduction and Sustainable ... [Published ReliefWeb - Latest Updates - May 21 2013]
U.N. pushes business to share responsibility fo... [Published TrustLaw - May 21 2013]
Switzerland hosts international conference on d... [Published Economic Times - May 21 2013]
World: UN global disasters forum opens with con... [Published ReliefWeb - Latest Updates - May 21 2013]
UN offers to help with recovery efforts in torn... [Published United Nations Multimedia - May 21 2013]
UN meeting looks at ways to reduce disaster ris... [Published United Nations Multimedia - May 21 2013]
Hezbollah sends more fighters [Published Global Times - May 21 2013]
Disaster risk reduction essential for Millenniu... [Published United Nations Multimedia - May 21 2013]

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Drumbeat: May 22, 2013 [Published The Oil Drum - Discussions about Energy and Our ... - May 22 2013] Oil-Fixing Probe Accelerates as EU Asks Traders for Help The investigation into possible oil-price fixing gathered pace as trading houses from Glencore Xstrata Plc, the $70 billion mining firm, to Gunvor Group Ltd. were asked to provide information ...
UN: UP TO 3,000 AU PEACEKEEPERS KILLED IN SOMAL... [Published Beegeagle's Blog - May 12 2013] UPDF BMP-2 and Casspir bring up the rear after the ambush at Elasha while Somali troops wearing red berets travel in the 4WD patrol van VOICE OF AMERICA 11 May, 2013 As many as 3,000 African Union peacekeepers have been killed in Somalia in recent ...
DEPUTY UN CHIEF STRESSES NEED TO ADVANCE SUSTAI... [Published EthicalMarkets.com - May 10 2013] The United Nations Deputy Secretary-General today encouraged governments, the tourism industry and local communities to work together to tackle the important challenge of urbanization and tourism to sustainable development.In <”http://www.un.org/sg/dsg/statements/index.asp?nid=400“>remarks ...
Somaliland:Press conference by Jan Eliasson, De... [Published Somalilandpress Twitter Account - May 10 2013] Somaliland:Press conference by Jan Eliasson, Deputy Secretary-General http://t.co/F2L4sBNsNW ...
SOMALI PEOPLE DESERVE INTERNATIONAL SUPPORT IN ... [Published SocioLingo Africa - May 08 2013] NEW YORK, May 8, 2013/African Press Organization (APO)/ — Following are UN Deputy Secretary-General Jan Eliasson’s remarks, as prepared for delivery, to the second London Conference on...[[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, ...