The members of the Security Council condemned in the strongest terms the terrorist attack in Kabul on 19 April centred on a National Directorate of Security (NDS) office in the Puli Mahmud Khan area, for which the Taliban has claimed responsibility. The attack resulted in at least 28 deaths as well as in more than 300 wounded persons.
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The following statement was issued today by the Spokesman for UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon:
The following statement was issued today by the Spokesman for UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon:
The following statement was issued today by the Spokesman for UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon:
Following is the text of UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s video message for the first Meeting of Speakers of Eurasian National Parliaments, in Moscow today:
The Committee on the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People, in cooperation with the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC), will convene an International Conference on the Question of Jerusalem in Dakar, at the King Fahd Palace Hotel on 3 and 4 May, under the theme “Jerusalem at the Heart of the Settlement of the Question of Palestine”.
Following are UN Deputy Secretary-General Jan Eliasson’s remarks on behalf of the Secretary-General to the General Assembly special session on the world drug problem, in New York today:
NEW YORK, 19 April (Office for Disarmament Affairs) — Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, General Assembly President Mogens Lykketoft and United Nations Messenger of Peace Michael Douglas will congratulate 11 artists who won the United Nations Poster for Peace contest on 3 May from 6:15 p.m. to 6:45 p.m.
The following statement was issued today by the Spokesman for UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon:
The following Security Council press statement was issued today by Council President Liu Jieyi (China):