The Department of Public Information (DPI) today associated itself with 11 non-governmental organizations (NGOs), bringing to 1,450 the number working with the Department in the area of communications and outreach.
Exploitation of the Internet and social media for terrorist purposes will be defeated, including through sustained and comprehensive action involving the active participation and collaboration of Member States, international and regional organizations, civil society and the private sector, according to the one of the preliminary conclusions of a special meeting in New York on 1 December.
The following Security Council press statement was issued today by Council President Román Oyarzun Marchesi (Spain):
Debates on international judicial cooperation, the sanctions regime surrounding nuclear, chemical and biological weapons, and human trafficking would be the major topics to be addressed this month by the Security Council, Román Oyarzun Marchesi (Spain), Council President for December, said at a Headquarters press conference today.
Following are UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s remarks to the General Assembly on a new approach to address cholera in Haiti, in New York today:
The United Nations Mission in Colombia today welcomed the ratification of the Peace Agreement between the Government and the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia-People’s Army (FARC-EP) by that country’s upper and lower houses of Parliament, opening the way for a comprehensive agreement and a new era of peace.
Following is UN Secretary-General’s Ban Ki-moon’s message on the International Day of Persons with Disabilities, observed on 3 December:
Following is the UN Secretary-General’s message, delivered by Luiza Carvalho, Regional Director of the United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women (UN-Women) for the Americas and the Caribbean to the General Assembly of the Latin American and Caribbean Parliament, in Panama City today:
Following is UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s message on the International Day for the Abolition of Slavery, observed on 2 December:
Following is UN Secretary-General’s message, delivered by François Lounceny Fall, Acting Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Central Africa and Head of the United Nations Regional Office for Central Africa (UNOCA), to the forty-third ministerial meeting of the United Nations Standing Advisory Committee on Security Questions in Central Africa (UNSAC), in São Tomé, São Tomé and Principe, today:
