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ORG/1726

United Nations Board of Auditors Holds Seventy-Sixth Regular Session on 20 July at New York Headquarters, Remotely from Santiago, Bonn, Beijing, Paris

The General Assembly established the United Nations Board of Auditors in 1946 as an important mechanism to promote accountability and transparency in the United Nations. The Board performs external audit of the accounts of the United Nations organization and its funds and programmes and reports its findings and recommendations to the General Assembly through the Advisory Committee on Administrative and Budgetary Questions (ACABQ) as also to individual governing bodies not under the General Assembly. The members of the Board have collective responsibility for the audits and approved 23 reports at their regular session at United Nations Headquarters, New York, and remotely from Santiago, Bonn, Beijing and Paris from 20—21 July 2022 (refer to annex).

SG/A/2135

Secretary-General Appoints Tshilidzi Marwala of South Africa Rector of United Nations University

​​​​​​​Following consultations with the Director-General of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), Audrey Azoulay, and with her concurrence, United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres has appointed Professor Tshilidzi Marwala of South Africa as Rector of the United Nations University (UNU) in Tokyo.

ORG/1725

Independent Audit Advisory Committee Holds Its Fifty-Ninth Session, 20-22 July

​​​​​​​The Independent Audit Advisory Committee of the United Nations (IAAC) held its fifty-ninth session from 20-22 July 2022 under a hybrid format at the United Nations Headquarters in New York.  The session was presided over by the Chair, Janet St. Laurent.  All the other members of the Committee, namely Dorothy Bradley, Anton Kosyanenko and Imran Vanker, were in attendance throughout the session, with the exception of Agus Pramono (Vice-Chair), who attended on the last day.

HR/5474

United Nations, Kingdom of Morocco Conclude High-Level Symposium Commemorating Fifth Anniversary of Fez Action Plan Adoption

The Kingdom of Morocco, represented by the Interministerial Delegation for Human Rights and the Rabita of Ulemas, jointly with the United Nations Office on Genocide Prevention of the Responsibility to Protect concluded a two-day high-level symposium in Fez, Kingdom of Morocco, to commemorate the fifth anniversary of the Plan of Action for Religious Leaders and Actors to Prevent Incitement to Violence that Could Lead to Atrocity Crimes, also called the Fez Plan of Action.