Miscellaneous

On 27 September, the United Nations convened a high-level meeting on the Malian political process on the margins of the general debate of the United Nations General Assembly. Opened by the Secretary-General of the United Nations, Ban Ki-moon, and by the President of Mali, Ibrahim Boubacar Keïta, the event gathered the members of the inter-Malian inclusive dialogue mediation team and of the Security Council to discuss the Malian political process.

On 26 September 2014, the United Nations Secretary-General convened a high-level meeting on the Central African Republic.

The ASEAN [Association of South-East Asian Nations] foreign ministers, United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon and the President of the sixty-ninth session of the United Nations General Assembly, Sam Kahamba Kutesa, today welcomed the progress made in cementing the partnership between ASEAN and the United Nations.

With the Ebola virus claiming the lives of 200 people each day, most of them women, world leaders at a high-level Headquarters meeting Thursday implored the international community to swiftly ramp up the response to the epidemic ravaging West Africa before it turned into a humanitarian catastrophe.

The following joint statement by UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon and United States Secretary of State John Kerry was issued today:

Following is a joint message by UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon and UN Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization Director-General Irina Bokova on the occasion of World Press Freedom Day, under the theme “Media Freedom for a Better Future: Shaping the Post-2015 Development Agenda”, to be observed on 3 May:

The following statement was issued today by UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon, UNESCO Director-General Irina Bokova and United Nations-League of Arab States Joint Special Representative for Syria Lakhdar Brahimi:

The United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon met today with the leaders of the Pacific Islands Forum on the sidelines of the United Nations General Assembly in New York to discuss recent developments in the Pacific region and to look at ways to enhance cooperation between the Pacific Islands Forum and the world body.

The following statement by the Middle East Quartet (United Nations, Russian Federation, United States, European Union) was issued on 27 September: