Press Release

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

On 29 July 2010, the Security Council Al-Qaida and Taliban Sanctions Committee approved the deletion (de-listing) of the five entries specified below from its Consolidated List. The Committee approved these de-listings following its review of the names, as called for in paragraph 25 of Security Council resolution 1822 (2008). The assets freeze, travel ban and arms embargo set out in paragraph 1 of Security Council resolution 1904 (2009) therefore no longer apply to the following entities:

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

Following are UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s remarks to the 2010 UN21 awards ceremony in New York today, 29 July:

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

United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon welcomes today’s action by the General Assembly to quickly approve Carman Lapointe-Young of Canada as Under-Secretary-General for the Office of Internal Oversight Services (OIOS).

On 27 July 2010, the Security Council Al-Qaida and Taliban Sanctions Committee approved the deletion (de-listing) of the eight entries specified below from its Consolidated List. The Committee approved these de-listings following its review of the names, as called for in paragraph 25 of Security Council resolution 1822 (2008). The assets freeze, travel ban and arms embargo set out in paragraph 1 of Security Council resolution 1904 (2009) therefore no longer apply to the following entities:

The following Security Council press statement was read out today by Council President U. Joy Ogwu (Nigeria):

The Independent Audit Advisory Committee of the United Nations held its eleventh session at United Nations Headquarters in New York from 21 to 23 July. The session was presided over by the Chairman, David M. Walker, and attended by all the Committee members, Vijayendra N. Kaul (Vice-Chairman), Vadim V. Dubinkin, John F.S. Muwanga and Adrian P. Strachan.

As natural disasters, accidents and war generate a never-ending stream of crisis, public attention shifts from one to the next. Meanwhile hunger, a quiet crisis, is rarely in the news. Yet current calculations show that close to 1 billion people worldwide continue to go to bed hungry each night. If the world continues at the current pace of hunger reduction, the Millennium Development Goal of halving the percentage of hungry people by 2015 will not be met.