Following are UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s remarks to the open formal consultation by the Security Council Committee established pursuant to resolution 1540 (2004) on the comprehensive review of the status of implementation of resolution 1540 (2004), in New York, today:
The Security Council considered a progress report (document S/2016/530) of the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons-United Nations Joint Investigative Mechanism, pursuant to resolution 2235 (2015).
Following is the text of the UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s video message for the Ministerial Meeting on the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty, in Vienna today:
The following Security Council press statement was issued today by Council President François Delattre (France):
NEW YORK, 31 May (Joint Investigative Mechanism) — The host country agreement between the Netherlands and the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons–United Nations Joint Investigative Mechanism was signed today in The Hague by Johan van der Werff, Ambassador responsible for international organizations at the Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and Virginia Gamba, head of the Joint Investigative Mechanism.
United Nations Security Council resolution 1540 (2004) is a key instrument in global efforts to prevent non-State actors, in particular terrorists, from threatening society with weapons of mass destruction, whether nuclear, chemical or biological. The resolution does this by requiring States to adopt laws with penalties that make such actions criminal, whether undertaken directly or by financing or assisting them; and by requiring States to implement wide-ranging domestic controls designed to keep weapons of mass destruction or the means to produce them out of the hands of non-State actors.
Following is UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s message, delivered by Kim Won-soo, Under-Secretary-General United Nations High Representative for Disarmament Affairs, to the annual North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) Conference on Weapons of Mass Destruction Arms Control, Disarmament and Non‑Proliferation, in Ljubljana today:
The investigators of the Joint Investigative Mechanism, mandated to identify those responsible for the use of chemical weapons in Syria, pursuant to Security Council resolution 2235 (2015), visited Damascus last week.
Following are UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s remarks to the award ceremony for the United Nations Poster for Peace contest, in New York on 3 May:
Following is UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s message to the Conference on Chemical Safety and Security in a Technologically Evolving World, in The Hague today:
