Background Release

22 June 2017

SG/SM/18586-SC/12885

Secretary-General Welcomes Security Council Resolution Supporting Deployment of New Counter-Terrorism Force in Sahel

The following statement was issued today by the Spokesman for UN Secretary-General António Guterres:

8 June 2017

SEA/2055

States Parties to United Nations Convention on Law of Sea Will Hold Twenty-Seventh Meeting at Headquarters, 12-16 June

NEW YORK, 8 June (Division for Ocean Affairs and the Law of the Sea) — The twenty-seventh Meeting of States Parties to the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea will be held at Headquarters from 12 to 16 June.

12 May 2017

GA/COL/3306

Special Committee on Decolonization to Hold Caribbean Regional Seminar in Kingstown, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, 16 to 18 May 2017

The Special Committee on Decolonization will hold the 2017 Caribbean Regional Seminar in Kingstown, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, from 16 to 18 May with a view to accelerating action in implementation of the Third International Decade for the Eradication of Colonialism (2011-2020).

21 April 2017

HR/5350

Annual Forum to Highlight Progress, Challenges, 10 Years after United Nations Declaration on Rights of Indigenous Peoples, 24 April–5 May

More than 1,000 indigenous participants from all over the world will be at United Nations Headquarters from 24 April to 5 May to attend the sixteenth session of the United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues.

22 March 2017

DC/3689

United Nations Conference on Legally Binding Instrument Leading towards Total Elimination of Nuclear Weapons Set for Headquarters, 27-31 March

NEW YORK, 22 March (Office for Disarmament Affairs) — Pursuant to General Assembly resolution 71/258, the United Nations conference to negotiate a legally binding instrument to prohibit nuclear weapons, leading towards their total elimination, will convene its first substantive session from 27 to 31 March at United Nations Headquarters.

30 January 2017

GA/PAL/1381

Palestinian Rights Committee to Convene United Nations Round Table on Question of Palestine in Managua, Nicaragua, 4 February

The Committee on the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People will convene the United Nations Round Table on the Question of Palestine at the Holiday Inn–Convention Centre in Managua, Nicaragua, on 4 February.

30 January 2017

SEA/2045

Commission on Limits of the Continental Shelf to Hold Forty-third Session at Headquarters, 30 January to 17 March

NEW YORK, 30 January (Division for Ocean Affairs and the Law of the Sea) ― The Commission on the Limits of the Continental Shelf will hold its forty-third session from 30 January to 17 March.

14 October 2016

SEA/2043

Commission on Limits of Continental Shelf to Hold Forty-second Session at Headquarters, 17 October to 2 December

NEW YORK, 14 October (Division for Ocean Affairs and the Law of the Sea) — The Commission on the Limits of the Continental Shelf will hold its forty-second session from 17 October to 2 December.