Press Conference

The time has come to reflect on achievements, gaps and new challenges as the world approaches the 2015 Millennium Development Goals deadline year, United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said at Headquarters today.

Following a transcript of UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s press conference, held in New York today, 9 September:

Despite very difficult and dangerous conditions, humanitarian aid organizations were committed to continuing their work in Syria, United Nations Emergency Relief Coordinator Valerie Amos said today.

The United Nations Global Compact could inspire a new level of business engagement with international issues and unlock the massive potential of collaboration among businesses, its Executive Director said at a Headquarters press conference today.

A group of eminent persons would be established this month to accelerate the entry into force of the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty, a senior official of the instrument’s preparatory commission said at a Headquarters press conference today.

September would see the Security Council hold a high-level debate on small arms and their role in fostering conflict, Gary Quinlan, Permanent Representative of Australia, said at Headquarters today as he assumed that organ’s rotating presidency for the month.

Following is a transcript of UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s press encounter, held in New York today, 3 September:

The Security Council’s work for August would include two open debates, respectively, on the cooperation between the United Nations and regional and subregional organizations, and on the protection of civilians in armed conflict, Permanent Representative of Argentina, María Cristina Perceval, said today at Headquarters as she assumed the 15-nation body’s presidency.

Faced with growing humanitarian and peacekeeping demands in increasingly dangerous situations, the United Nations should accelerate efforts to conclude a set of standards on the use of private military and security companies, known as PMSCs, said experts at a Headquarters press conference today.

The Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Children and Armed Conflict told correspondents at a Headquarters press conference that she had been “overwhelmed” by what she had seen during her recent visit to Syria and neighbouring countries Jordan, Iraq, Turkey and Lebanon from 28 June to 18 July.