Following a transcript of UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s press conference, held in New York today, 9 September: Good morning, ladies and gentlemen. I returned from the Saint Petersburg G-20 (Group of 20) Summit meeting on Saturday afternoon, and I felt it was important for me to brief you as soon as I could. Syria […]
On 26 August 2013, the Security Council Committee pursuant to resolutions 1267 (1999) and 1989 (2011) approved the deletion (delisting) of the entry specified below from the Al-Qaida Sanctions List. The assets freeze, travel ban and arms embargo set out in paragraph 1 of Security Council resolution 2083 (2012) therefore no longer apply to […]
(Based on information provided by the Protocol and Liaison Service) The new Permanent Representative of Kiribati to the United Nations, Makurita Baaro, presented her credentials to UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today. From 2011 until her latest appointment, Ms. Baaro was Relations Manager in the Australian-funded Kiribati Education Improvement Programme ing the Ministry of Education. She […]
United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon arrived in Ramallah, in the State of Palestine, on the afternoon of Thursday, 15 August, on a flight from Aqaba in Jordan. He first met with Rami Hamdallah, the Prime Minister of the Palestinian Authority. Next the Secretary-General helped launch the United Nations Development Assistance Framework for the State of […]
United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon arrived in Amman in the early hours of Thursday, 15 August, on a flight from Islamabad. That morning he met with Foreign Minister Nasser Judeh at the Foreign Ministry. Next the Secretary-General and the Foreign Minister flew by helicopter to Aqaba for a meeting with King Abdullah II Bin Al […]
The following statement was issued today by the Spokesperson for UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon: The Secretary-General strongly condemns the recent violent attacks that have killed scores of civilians in the localities of Mafa and Kondugo in Borno State, including dozens of worshippers reported to have been shot to death while praying inside a mosque. […]
The Security Council Committee pursuant to resolutions 751 (1992) and 1907 (2009) concerning Somalia and Eritrea is deeply concerned by the continuing trade in Somali charcoal as reported by the Monitoring Group on Somalia and Eritrea (document S/2013/413). Recalling paragraph 22 of Security Council resolution 2036 (2012) and paragraph 18 of resolution 2111 (2013), […]
Following is UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s message for International Youth Day, 12 August, under the theme “Youth Migration: Moving Development Forward”: This year’s observance of International Youth Day focuses on the issue of youth migration. Of the annual total of some 214 million international migrants, young people constitute more than 10 per cent, yet […]
Following is UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s message for the International Day of the World’s Indigenous Peoples, to be observed on 9 August: On this International Day of the World’s Indigenous Peoples, we highlight the importance of honouring treaties, agreements and other constructive arrangements between States, their citizens and indigenous peoples. Such consensual arrangements enable better […]
Convening briefly this morning, the General Assembly appointed Toshihiro Aiki ( Japan) to fill a vacancy on the Advisory Committee on istrative and Budgetary Questions, which had arisen due to the recent resignation of one of its . Appointed by consensus, Mr. Aiki will replace Akira Sugiyama ( Japan), whose resignation becomes effective on 12 August. […]
