Press Release

The Board of Auditors approved 11 audit reports during its seventieth regular session at United Nations Headquarters in New York on 26 July 2016.

Following is UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s message on the International Day of Friendship, observed on 30 July:

The Independent Audit Advisory Committee (IAAC) of the United Nations held its thirty-fifth session from 25 to 27 July at the United Nations Headquarters in New York.  The session was presided over by the Chair, J. Christopher Mihm.  All the other members of the IAAC, namely Maria Gracia M. Pulido Tan (Vice-Chair), Patricia X. Arriagada Villouta, Natalia A. Bocharova and Richard Quartei Quartey, were in attendance.

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

United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today announced the appointment of Major General Mohammad Humayun Kabir of Bangladesh as Force Commander of the United Nations Peacekeeping Force in Cyprus (UNFICYP).  Major General Kabir will succeed Major General Kristin Lund of Norway, who will complete her assignment on 29 July 2016.

On 15 July 2016, members of the Security Council Committee established pursuant to resolution 2206 (2015) concerning South Sudan were briefed by the Coordinator of the Panel of Experts on South Sudan in connection with the Panel’s work programme.

Following is UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s statement calling for the observance of the Olympic Truce for the 2016 Olympic and Paralympic Games in Rio de Janeiro, starting on 29 July:

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

Following is UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s message to the League of Arab States Summit, delivered by Ismail Ould Cheikh Ahmed, Special Envoy for Yemen, in Nouakchott today:

The United Nations announced that Monica Chelliah has won the Unite Ideas #Electricity4All Python programming challenge.  She was presented with the award during the High-Level Political Forum on Sustainable Development.