SG/SM/14397-AFR/2411
Following is UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s video message to the Libyan people on the 7 July election, issued on 5 July 2012:
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SG/SM/14396-ECOSOC/6526
Following are UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s remarks to the 2012 Development Cooperation Forum, in New York, today, 5 July:
SG/SM/14395-DEV/2948
Following is the text of UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s message to the thirty-third meeting of the heads of Government of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM), in Gros Islet, Saint Lucia, 4 July:
SC/10700-L/3197
The following Security Council press statement was issued today by Council President Néstor Osorio (Colombia):
GA/PAL/1239
The Committee on the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People will convene the United Nations Asian and Pacific Meeting in Support of Israeli-Palestinian Peace on 10 and 11 July at the Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP), in Bangkok. The theme of the Meeting will be “International efforts at addressing the obstacles to the two-State solution — the role of Asian and Pacific governmental and non-governmental actors”.
SG/SM/14394-DC/3363
Following are UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s remarks to the United Nations Conference on the Arms Trade Treaty, in New York on 3 July:
SG/SM/14393-HR/5101
Following are UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s remarks at a high-level event on the death penalty, in New York on 3 July:
SC/10697
On 2 July 2012, the Security Council Committee pursuant to resolutions 1267 (1999) and 1989 (2011) approved the deletion (delisting) of the entries specified below from the Al-Qaida Sanctions List. The assets freeze, travel ban and arms embargo set out in paragraph 1 of Security Council resolution 1989 (2011) therefore no longer applies to the following entries:
SC/10696
The Security Council Committee established pursuant to resolution 1521 (2003) concerning Liberia decided on 20 June 2012 to grant the delisting petition of 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).
DC/3361
The United Nations Conference on the Arms Trade Treaty — the most important initiative ever within this organization in the field of arms regulation — opens today at the United Nations Headquarters in New York. Scheduled to run through 27 July, the Conference, the first of its kind, aims to elaborate a legally binding instrument on the highest possible common international standards for the transfer of conventional arms.