On 7 September 2016, the Security Council Committee established pursuant to resolution 1988 (2011) enacted the amendments specified with strikethrough and underline in the entries below to its List (the 1988 List) of individuals and entities subject to the assets freeze, travel ban and arms embargo set out in paragraph 1 of Security Council resolution 2255 (2015) adopted under Chapter VII of the Charter of the United Nations.
On 19 August 2016, the Security Council Committee established pursuant to resolution 2048 (2012) concerning Guinea-Bissau held informal consultations to consider the Secretary-General’s report on progress made with regards to stabilization and restoration of constitutional order in Guinea-Bissau, submitted pursuant paragraph 19 of resolution 2267 (2016).
The following Security Council press statement was issued today by Council President Gerard van Bohemen (New Zealand):
On 6 September 2016, the Security Council Committee established pursuant to resolution 1518 (2003) approved the removal of the entry specified below from its List of Individuals and Entities subject to the assets freeze set out by paragraph 23 of Security Council resolution 1483 (2003) adopted under Chapter VII of the Charter of the United Nations:
Following are UN Deputy Secretary-General Jan Eliasson’s remarks at the informal interactive dialogue on “Mobilizing collective action: The next decade of the responsibility to protect”, in New York today:
On 6 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 entry 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.
The United Nations Reham al-Farra Memorial Journalists Fellowship Programme will be held at the United Nations Headquarters in New York from today through 30 September.
Following is UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s message, as delivered by Michael Møller, Director-General of the United Nations Office at Geneva, to the Bled Strategic Forum, in Bled, Slovenia, today:
Following is UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s message, as delivered by Mary Soliman, Acting Director, Geneva Branch, Office for Disarmament Affairs, to the Sixth Meeting of the States Parties to the Convention on Cluster Munitions, in Geneva today:
Following is UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s message to the World Philanthropy Forum, in Beijing today:
