Press Release

The following Security Council press statement was issued today by Council President Samantha Power (United States):

The following statement was issued today by the Spokesman for UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon:

NEW YORK, 21 December 2015 (Joint Investigative Mechanism) — The three-member leadership panel of the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons-United Nations Joint Investigative Mechanism, led by its Head, Virginia Gamba, was in Damascus on 17 December for meetings with the Government of the Syrian Arab Republic.

The new Permanent Representative of Burkina Faso to the United Nations, Yemdaogo Eric Tiare, presented his credentials to UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today.

The new Permanent Representative of Uruguay to the United Nations, Elbio Oscar Rosselli Frieri, presented his credentials to UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today.

The following Security Council press statement was issued today by Council President Samantha Power (United States):

Following are UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s remarks on the situation in Syria to the Security Council, in New York on 18 December 2015:

Following is the text of Deputy Secretary-General Jan Eliasson’s remarks to a panel on the occasion of International Migrants Day, in New York, today:

United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon flew from New York to Paris on Thursday evening, 3 December, to resume participation in the twenty-first Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (COP).

On Tuesday, 8 December, in the evening, United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon flew from Paris, France, to Helsinki, Finland, to participate in the commemoration of the sixtieth anniversary of the country’s membership in the United Nations.