Following is UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s message, delivered by Michael Møller, Director-General of the United Nations Office at Geneva, to the Conference “Europe Whole, Free and at Peace-2040” and on the occasion of the twenty-fifth anniversary of Lithuania’s membership in the United Nations, in Vilnius today:
In a continuing effort to encourage wider participation in the Multilateral Treaty Framework, the United Nations is hosting the annual Treaty Event at its Headquarters from 19 to 23 September. During the event, Member States are invited to sign multilateral treaties deposited with the United Nations Secretary-General or become party to them by depositing instruments of ratification or accession.
Following are UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s remarks at the “Back to the Present” launch of a time machine installation on data for children, in New York, today:
Following is UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s message for World Tourism Day, observed on 27 September:
The Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) and the Government of Kyrgyzstan, with the assistance of the United Nations Regional Centre for Peace and Disarmament in Asia and the Pacific, are jointly organizing a national round-table meeting to review the National Implementation Action Plan (NIAP) on the implementation of United Nations Security Council resolution 1540 (2004).
On 14 September 2016, the Security Council Committee pursuant to resolutions 1267 (1999), 1989 (2011) and 2253 (2015) enacted the amendments specified with underline and strikethrough in the entries below on its ISIL (Da’esh) and Al-Qaida Sanctions List of individuals and entities subject to the assets freeze, travel ban and arms embargo set out in paragraph 2 of Security Council resolution 2253 (2015) adopted under Chapter VII of the Charter of the United Nations.
Following are UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s remarks, as prepared for delivery, at a prayer service on the occasion of the opening of the seventy-first session of the General Assembly, in New York, today:
Following are UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s remarks at the opening plenary meeting of the seventy-first session of the General Assembly, in New York today:
On 13 June 2016, the United Nations General Assembly elected Peter Thomson of Fiji to serve as President of its seventy-first session, which runs from September 2016 to September 2017.
Following are UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s remarks at the closing plenary meeting of the seventieth session of the General Assembly, in New York today:
