Delegates in the Fifth Committee (Administrative and Budgetary) today voiced their concerns over the benefit payment delays endured by retirees and participants in the Organization’s $53.8 billion United Nations Joint Staff Pension Fund.
The United Nations Mission in South Sudan (UNMISS) reports that it has observed Sudan People’s Liberation Army (SPLA) forces firing upon opposition troops at the Nassir airstrip in Upper Nile, and directing rocket-propelled grenades towards opposition positions in Kedbek.
Following is UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s message for World AIDS Day, observed on 1 December:
United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon announced today the appointment of Olufemi Elias of Nigeria as Registrar of the International Residual Mechanism for Criminal Tribunals, with effect from 1 January 2017.
Following is the text of UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s video message for the UN Cares Awards, in New York, today:
Following are UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s remarks as prepared for delivery to the side event on the roll-out process of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in Ashgabat, Turkmenistan, today:
Following is UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s message, delivered by Antonio Prado, Deputy Executive Secretary of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean, to the Convention on the Prohibition of the Use, Stockpiling, Production and Transfer of Anti-Personnel Mines and on Their Destruction, in Santiago today:
Following are UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s remarks as prepared for delivery at the opening of the new UN House with President Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov, in Ashgabat, Turkmenistan, today:
Following is the text of UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s video message to the Budapest Water Summit, in Budapest today:
The following statement was issued today by the Spokesman for UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon:
