Press Release

Following is UN Deputy Secretary-General UN Deputy Secretary-General Jan Eliasson’s briefing to the Security Council on Ukraine, in New York today:

United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has appointed Vladimir Kuznetsov of the Russian Federation as Director of the United Nations Information Centre (UNIC) in Moscow, Russian Federation.  Mr. Kuznetsov assumed his duties today.

On 10 December 2015, the Security Council Committee pursuant to resolutions 1267 (1999) and 1989 (2011) enacted the amendments specified with underline and strikethrough in the entries below on its Al-Qaida Sanctions List of individuals and entities subject to the assets freeze, travel ban and arms embargo set out in paragraph 1 of Security Council resolution 2161 (2014) adopted under Chapter VII of the Charter of the United Nations.

On 10 December 2015, the Security Council Committee pursuant to resolutions 1267 (1999) and 1989 (2011) concerning Al-Qaida and associated individuals and entities removed the name below from the Al-Qaida Sanctions List.

Following are UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s remarks at the COP21 Momentum for Change event in Paris today:

Following are UN Deputy Secretary-General Jan Eliasson’s remarks at the Human Rights Day Commemoration at Four Freedoms Park on Roosevelt Island, in New York today:

Following are UN Deputy Secretary-General Jan Eliasson’s remarks at a panel discussion in commemoration of Human Rights Day, in New York on 9 December:

Following is UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s message, delivered by Janos Pasztor, Assistant Secretary-General for Climate Change, to the opening of the Climate and Clean Air Coalition High Level Assembly, in Paris on 8 December:

The Security Council today adopted an historic resolution on youth, peace and security, which for the first time in its history focuses entirely on the role of young men and women in peacebuilding and countering violent extremism.

Following are UN Deputy Secretary-General Jan Eliasson’s remarks on the observance of the International Day of Commemoration and Dignity of the Victims of the Crime of Genocide and of the Prevention of this Crime, in New York today: