The Secretary-General in Mont Pèlerin, Switzerland, this morning, opened a week of intensive negotiations between the Greek Cypriot and Turkish Cypriot leaders aimed at reaching a settlement this year to their long-standing conflict. He commended their vision and said the prospect of a solution is within their reach.
After two decades of stalled action on Security Council reform, it was high time to move the process forward, the General Assembly heard today, with many speakers calling for an updated Council that would better reflect the sweeping global changes that had occurred since the founding of the United Nations in 1946.
At a United Nations pledging conference today, 24 countries committed to provide approximately $1.09 billion towards development activities. The amount represented an increase of more than of fourteen-fold over those commitments made in 2015.
The following Security Council press statement was issued today by Council President Fodé Seck (Senegal):
Nine Palestinian journalists from broadcast, print and online media will participate in a training programme organized by the Department of Public Information, from 7 November to 8 December.
Following are UN Deputy Secretary-General Jan Eliasson’s remarks, as prepared for delivery, at the Security Council open debate on peace operations facing asymmetric threats, in New York today:
United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today announced the appointment of Mourad Wahba of Egypt as Assistant Administrator and Director of the Regional Bureau for Arab States at the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP).
Following is the text of UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s video message to the opening of the Review Conference of the Biological Weapons Convention, in Geneva today:
Following its debate on the revitalization of the work of the General Assembly, the Sixth Committee (Legal) today approved without a vote a request for Observer status and six draft resolutions related to its work during the seventy-first session.
Peace operations today increasingly faced asymmetrical threats from violent extremist and terrorist groups that specifically targeted peacekeepers, Deputy Secretary-General Jan Eliasson told the Security Council today.
