The world was currently witnessing the renewed use of chemical weapons, and there was no reason to think that a moral line would be drawn at the use of biological weapons, the First Committee (Disarmament and International Security) heard today as it concluded its thematic debate on nuclear weapons and took up its consideration of other weapons of mass destruction.
Despite the persistence of divergent views on its role, Member States would remain committed to the work of the Special Committee on the Charter of the United Nations and on Strengthening the Role of the United Nations, the Sixth Committee (Legal) heard today as it took up the work of that body.
Gathered today to discuss the Organization’s finances, delegates of the Fifth Committee (Administrative and Budgetary) once again prodded each other to make their full, timely financial payments to help the Secretariat ease a cash crunch in the regular budget and satisfy the mandates outlined in the United Nations Charter.
More effective, human rights-based approaches were urgently needed to address the global crisis of migration governance, the top United Nations human rights official told the Third Committee (Social, Humanitarian and Cultural) today, as it continued debating the issue in a series of interactive dialogues.
The Fifth Committee (Administrative and Budgetary) today began its examination of conference management, including issues related to overall costs, multilingual translation and interpretation, document issuance, and the use of resources and facilities, while approving proposed revisions to programme planning and evaluation rules as well as recommended ways to better implement results-based budgeting.
No one should accept as valid the arguments preferred by nuclear-weapon States and those within their military alliances that there were no security conditions in place to bring about nuclear disarmament, the First Committee (Disarmament and International Security) heard today as it continued its thematic debate on nuclear weapons.
The General Assembly today elected 18 members of the Economic and Social Council to serve three-year terms beginning 1 January 2016.
Realizing the goals of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and the assurance of global security required the sharing of outer space technologies and the adoption of an international code of conduct for their application, the Fourth Committee (Special Political and Decolonization) heard today, as it concluded its general debate on international cooperation in the peaceful uses of outer space.
While speakers agreed on the need to end impunity for the gravest international crimes, views diverged on how broad the application of universal jurisdiction should be towards that end and whether or not to specify crimes for inclusion, as the Sixth Committee (Legal) considered the matter today.
States had the obligation to respect and ensure the right of all persons to be free from torture and ill treatment, and mechanisms to detect and prevent those scourges must have readily available funding to ensure the fulfilment of their mandates, the Third Committee (Social, Humanitarian and Cultural) heard today as it began discussions on human rights with a series of interactive dialogues with special rapporteurs and other top officials.
