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Speakers Underline Atomic Energy Agency’s Key Role in Ensuring Nuclear Safety, Security, as General Assembly Considers Its Annual Report

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The General Assembly, taking up a range of items this afternoon, considered the latest report of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) — the main United Nations organ devoted to the peaceful uses of nuclear energy — while also adopting a text related to the work of the Credentials Committee and electing seven members to the Committee for Programme and Coordination.

Secretary-General Wishes Peace, Prosperity to Successor, Member States, in General Assembly Tribute Statement

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Following are UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s remarks to the General Assembly plenary meeting to pay tribute to the Secretary-General and the taking of the oath of office by Secretary-General-designate António Guterres, in New York today:

Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons among Most Critical Tools for Guarding against Human Suffering, Secretary-General Tells Review Conference

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Following is UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s message, delivered by Michael Møller, Director-General of United Nations Office at Geneva, to the fifth Review Conference of the Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons, in Geneva today:

Security Council ISIL (Da’esh) And Al-Qaida Sanctions Committee Adds One Name to Its Sanctions List

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On 12 December 2016, the Security Council Committee pursuant to resolutions 1267 (1999), 1989 (2011) and 2253 (2015) concerning ISIL (Da’esh), Al‑Qaida approved the addition of the entry specified below to its ISIL (Da’esh) and Al-Qaida Sanctions List of individuals and entities subject to the assets freeze, travel ban and arms embargo set out in paragraph 2 of Security Council resolution 2253 (2015) adopted under Chapter VII of the Charter of the United Nations.