The United Nations is concerned about civilians in Aleppo as fighting continues in the entire city. According to local partners, more than 40,000 people have left besieged areas for Kudish-held Sheikh Magsoud, among other areas. The United Nations has called urgently for a pause in the fighting.
Confident that the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia would “close its doors” at the end of 2017, its President informed the Security Council today that the Tribunal only had one trial, one appeal and one contempt case remaining and requested a final extension of the judges’ mandates until the end of November next year.
Following are UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s remarks at the Habibi & Hawara restaurant in Vienna, Austria, today:
The Economic and Social Council met this morning to fill regular and outstanding vacancies in nine of its subsidiary bodies.
Following is the UN Secretary-General’s message on the International Day of Commemoration and Dignity of the Victims of the Crime of Genocide and of the Prevention of this Crime, on 9 December:
United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon announced today the appointment of Major General Wang Xiaojun of the People’s Republic of China as the Force Commander of the United Nations Mission for the Referendum in Western Sahara (MINURSO).
United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon announced today the appointment of Ahmed Al Meraikhi of Qatar as his Humanitarian Envoy. He will succeed Abdullah al Matouq of Kuwait, to whom the Secretary-General is grateful for his dedicated service to the organization.
Following is UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s message to the twenty-third Ministerial Council of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE), delivered by Petko Draganov, Special Representative and Head of the United Nations Regional Centre for Preventive Diplomacy for Central Asia, in Hamburg, Germany, today:
Following is the text of UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s video message to the ninth Bali Democracy Forum, in Bali, Indonesia, today:
The following Security Council press statement was issued today by Council President Román Oyarzun Marchesi (Spain):
