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13 July 2012

SG/A/1356-AIDS/180-BIO/4383

Secretary-General Appoints Asha-Rose Migiro of United Republic of Tanzania Special Envoy for HIV/AIDS in Africa

United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has appointed Asha-Rose Migiro of the United Republic of Tanzania, former United Nations Deputy Secretary-General, as his Special Envoy for HIV/AIDS in Africa. She will replace Elizabeth Mataka, who the Secretary-General thanked for her outstanding and dedicated service in this role since 2007.

12 July 2012

SG/SM/14411-SC/10708-PBC/87

Secretary-General, at Security Council Debate on Peacebuilding Commission Report, Stresses International Partnership in Support of Nationally Owned Priorities

Following are UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s remarks to the Security Council debate on the report of the Peacebuilding Commission on its fifth session, in New York on 12 July:

11 July 2012

SG/SM/14410-POP/1009

Count on United Nations System to Help Meet Needs of 120 Million Additional Women by 2020, Secretary-General Tells London Family Planning Summit

Following is the text of UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s video message to the London Summit on Family Planning, in the United Kingdom on 11 July:

11 July 2012

SC/10705

Security Council Committee on Somalia and Eritrea Amends One Entry on List of Individuals and Entities

On 10 July 2012, the Security Council Committee pursuant to resolutions 751 (1992) and 1907 (2009) concerning Somalia and Eritrea approved the amendments specified with underline in the entry below of the list of individuals and entities subject to the travel ban, assets freeze and targeted arms embargo imposed by paragraphs 1, 3 and 7 of resolution 1844 (2008).

10 July 2012

SG/T/2856

Activities of Secretary-General in Japan, 6-9 July

United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon left New York on the afternoon of Friday, 6 July, on a flight to Japan, and arrived in Tokyo on the afternoon of Saturday, 7 July.

10 July 2012

SG/SM/14409

Arab Spring Has Provided New Sense of Purpose to Close, Long-Standing Partnership of United Nations, Arab League, Says Secretary-General in Message

Following is UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s message to the United Nations-League of Arab States General Meeting on Cooperation, delivered by Levent Bilman, Director, Policy and Mediation Division, Department of Political Affairs, in Vienna, 10 July:

10 July 2012

SG/SM/14408-GA/PAL/1241

Secretary-General Says Israeli-Palestinian Process at Dangerous Standstill, Long-Hoped for Two-State Solution Increasingly at Risk, in Message

Following is UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s message to the United Nations Asian and Pacific meeting in Support of Israeli-Palestinian Peace, delivered by Wolfgang Grieger, Director of the Division for Palestinian Rights, Department of Political Affairs, in Bangkok, 10 July:

10 July 2012

SC/10704-AFR/2416

Security Council Press Statement on Libya Elections

The following Security Council press statement was issued today by Council President Néstor Osorio (Colombia):

10 July 2012

SC/10703

Security Council Committee on Liberia Delists One Individual from Its Travel Ban, Assets Freeze Lists

The Security Council Committee established pursuant to resolution 1521 (2003) concerning Liberia decided on 6 July 2012 to delist the following individual from the list of individuals subject to the travel restrictions imposed by paragraph 4 (a) of resolution 1521 (2003) (the travel ban list) and the list of individuals and entities subject to the measures imposed by paragraph 1 of resolution 1532 (2004) (the assets freeze list).

9 July 2012

SG/T/2855

Activities of Secretary-General in Switzerland, 30 June - 1 July

United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon arrived in Geneva, Switzerland, on Saturday morning, 30 June, to attend the meeting of the Action Group for Syria. Upon his arrival at the Palais des Nations, the United Nations Office at Geneva, he met with the Joint Special Envoy for the United Nations and the League of Arab States for the Syrian Crisis, Kofi Annan, as well as his two Deputies, Jean-Marie Guéhenno and Nasser al-Kidwa.

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