NEW YORK, 17 June (Office for Disarmament Affairs) — A workshop on capacity-building for the Programme of Action on the Illicit Trade in Small Arms and Light Weapons and the Arms Trade Treaty jointly organized by the Government of Bangladesh and the United Nations Regional Centre for Peace and Disarmament in Asia and the Pacific is taking place in Dhaka, Bangladesh, on 17 and 18 June.
In progress at UNHQ
Press Release
The following Security Council press statement was issued today by Council President Ramlan Bin Ibrahim (Malaysia):
Following are UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s remarks, as prepared for delivery, on the occasion of the handover of the report of the High-level Independent Panel on Peace Operations, in New York today:
Following are UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s remarks on the election of His Excellency Mogens Lykketoft of Denmark as President of the General Assembly, in New York on 15 June:
Following is UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s message on International Widows’ Day, observed on 23 June:
On 15 June 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.
The following statement was issued today by the Spokesman for UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon:
NEW YORK, 15 June (Division for Ocean Affairs and the Law of the Sea) ― The twenty-fifth Meeting of States Parties to the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea was held at Headquarters from 8 to 12 June.
The following Security Council press statement was issued today by Council President Ramlan Bin Ibrahim (Malaysia):
Following is UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s message for the International Day of Yoga, observed on 21 June: