Press Release

Carlos Enrique García González was elected Chair of the Fourth Committee (Special Political and Decolonization) on 1 October.

Stephan Tafrov (Bulgaria) was elected Chair of the Third Committee (Social, Humanitarian and Cultural) on 1 October.

Abdou Salam Diallo was elected Chair of the Second Committee (Economic and Financial) on 1 October.

Ibrahim Dabbashi, Permanent Representative of Libya to the United Nations, was elected Chair of the First Committee (Disarmament and International Security) on 1 October.

John W. Ashe (Antigua and Barbuda) was elected President of the sixty-eighth session of the General Assembly on 14 June 2013, while serving as Permanent Representative to both the United Nations and the World Trade Organization since 2004.

Following is UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s message for the International Day of Non-Violence, 2 October:

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

The Security Council Committee pursuant to resolutions 1267 (1999) and 1989 (2011) concerning Al-Qaida and associated individuals and entities removed the name of the individual below from the Al-Qaida Sanctions List after concluding its consideration of a delisting request submitted through the Office of the Ombudsperson established pursuant to Security Council resolution 1904 (2009), and after considering the Comprehensive Report of the Ombudsperson on this delisting request.

Following is UN Deputy Secretary-General Jan Eliasson’s remarks, as prepared for delivery, at the briefing on the work of African Regional Economic Communities, in New York, 1 October:

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