Unanimously adopting its annual resolution in support of the Government and people of Afghanistan, the General Assembly today heard expressions of alarm over recent spikes in civilian casualties and the influence of violent extremists, as speakers vowed to help the conflict-affected nation achieve its untapped potential.
On 9 November 2016, the Security Council Committee established pursuant to resolution 1533 (2004) concerning the Democratic Republic of the Congo held a formal meeting with Ms. Jeanine Mabunda, the DRC Presidential Adviser on Sexual Violence and Child Recruitment.
The Secretary-General said the Government of Canada’s announcement that it was resuming support to the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees by donating Can $25 million will help the Agency continue vital health, education, humanitarian and social services for 5.3 million vulnerable refugees.
The deterioration of South Sudan’s economy and the increasingly fragmented conflict in that country had placed it on a potential downward slide towards greater divisiveness and the risk of a full-scale civil conflict, the Secretary-General’s Special Representative in that country told the Security Council this afternoon.
Following are UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s remarks to the high-level event on accelerating climate action, in Marrakech, Morocco, today:
Following are UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s remarks, as prepared for delivery, to the meeting with civil society organizations at the twenty-second session of the Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, in Marrakech, Morocco, today:
Speakers in the Security Council this morning called for a stronger strategic partnership between the United Nations and the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) on peace and security, particularly in relation to countering extremist ideology.
The text of UN Deputy Secretary-General Jan Eliasson’s remarks to the Brussels conference on the Central African Republic is not available in English. For the French text, please see www.un.org/press/fr/2016/dsgsm1028.doc.htm.
Following is the text of UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s video message to the gala event to celebrate the United Nations Trust Fund to End Violence against Women, in New York today:
The United Nations Regional Centre for Peace and Disarmament in Asia and the Pacific is finalizing preparations to resume operations from its headquarters in Kathmandu, following a temporary relocation after the devastating earthquakes that hit Nepal in 2015.
