Following are UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s remarks at the signing of the Colombia Peace Agreements, in Cartagena, Colombia today:
The only way to ensure the world was safe from nuclear weapons was to eliminate them entirely, speakers said at a high-level meeting of the General Assembly held to commemorate and promote the International Day for the Total Elimination of Nuclear Weapons.
The Secretary-General said his meeting in Cyprus on Sunday with the Greek Cypriot and Turkish Cypriot leaders was productive and that he had agreed to their request to step up personal engagement to help them achieve a comprehensive settlement this year.
Following are UN Deputy Secretary-General Jan Eliasson’s remarks at the high-level plenary meeting to commemorate the International Day for the Total Elimination of Nuclear Weapons, in New York today:
Following is UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s message, as delivered by Yury Fedotov, Director General of the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC), to the sixtieth regular session of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), today:
Spotlighting examples of persistent inequality around the globe – from skewed banking practices to entrenched poverty to lingering systemic racism – world leaders participating in the final day of the General Assembly’s seventy-first annual debate nevertheless expressed optimism that efforts to promote equitable growth, peace and prosperity would prevail.
As the United States and the Russian Federation traded accusations in the Security Council today of misconduct in their handling of the crisis in Syria over the past two weeks, the United Nations top official addressing the conflict urged them to salvage their recent cessation of hostilities agreement before all hope was lost.
The following statement was issued today by the Spokesman for UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon:
The following statement was issued today by the Spokesman for UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon:
Following is UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s message, delivered by Ahmad Alhendawi, United Nations Envoy on Youth, to the second Nigerian Young Professionals Summit, in New York today:
