Following is UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s message on the International Day of Non-violence, observed on 2 October:
The Emergency Relief Coordinator told the Security Council today that the last seven days had seen an intensification of attacks across Syria. He said that nowhere had the fighting been more intense than in besieged east Aleppo, where estimates are that more than 320 civilians were killed and 765 injured in the first days.
Warning that “Syria is bleeding and its citizens are dying” in increasing numbers and with increasing ferocity, the United Nations top humanitarian official urged the Security Council today to find common humanity and restore the cessation of hostilities to protect civilians, save lives and end the “unbridled horror”.
The Fourth Committee (Special Political and Decolonization) today approved its work programme for the seventy-first session, which covers topics ranging from the decolonization of the remaining Non-Self-Governing Territories, to peaceful uses of outer space, to the plight of Palestinian refugees and Israel’s practices in Occupied Arab Territories.
Following is UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s message to the Baku International Humanitarian Forum, delivered by Cihan Sultanoglu, Assistant Administrator and Director, Regional Bureau for Europe and the CIS, United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), in Baku today:
Following are UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s remarks at the memorial ceremony for Shimon Peres, former President of Israel, in New York today:
Following are UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s remarks, as prepared for delivery, at the opening of the “Save the Earth” exhibition, in New York today:
The following Security Council press statement was issued today by Council President Gerard van Bohemen (New Zealand):
Following are UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s remarks at a briefing at the Security Council debate on the protection of civilians: health care in armed conflict, today:
For the first time since 2014, the World Food Programme has distributed urgently needed food for people in and around Shirqat, Iraq, who had been living under siege and cut off from humanitarian aid. Through local partner Muslim Aid, it distributed a one-month supply of food to families.
