United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, following consultations with the Advisory Commission of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA), announced today the appointment of Pierre Krähenbühl of Switzerland as the Agency’s new Commissioner-General. He will replace Filippo Grandi.
Following are UN Secretary-General Ban Ki‑moon’s remarks to the high-level segment of the nineteenth Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, in Warsaw, 19 November:
Following are UN Secretary-General Ban Ki‑moon’s remarks, as delivered, at the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp, in Oswiecim, Poland, today, 18 November: