Following are UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s remarks at the reception hosted by the Carnegie Corporation of New York in honour of his human rights legacy, in New York today:
United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon arrived in Ashgabat in the late evening on Friday, 25 November, on a flight from Dubai.
United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon arrived in Abu Dhabi on a flight from New York around midday on Friday, 25 November.
The General Assembly would declare an International Decade for Action, “Water for Sustainable Development”, according to one of five draft resolutions approved by the Second Committee (Economic and Financial) today. It deferred action on three others.
Delegates in the Fifth Committee (Administrative and Budgetary) criticized the United Nations Secretary-General today for what they viewed as his failure to present a comprehensive budget proposal to support implementation of the Organization’s ambitious Sustainable Development Goals, while voicing strong concern over the Secretariat’s handling of programme budget assessments for regional commissions.
The United Nations Emergency Relief Coordinator briefed the Security Council, saying scores of people were killed in a single airstrike in Aleppo today, with some 20,000 people being displaced in recent days. He said thousands more were expected to flee if fighting further spread and intensified over the coming days.
The General Assembly today adopted six resolutions on Palestinian and Middle East issues, ranging from Jerusalem to the United Nations special information programme on the question of Palestine.
In an emergency session called by the delegations of France and the United Kingdom, the Security Council met today to discuss the urgent humanitarian situation in the Syrian city of Aleppo.
United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, following consultation with the Bureau of the Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity, announced today the appointment of Cristiana Paşca Palmer of Romania as Executive Secretary of the Secretariat of the Convention on Biological Diversity.
Following are UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s remarks at the World AIDS Day event, in New York today:
