The following Security Council press statement was issued today by Council President Vitaly Churkin (Russian Federation):
The United Nations Multidimensional Integrated Stabilization Mission in the Central African Republic condemned today repeated attacks against its peacekeepers. A United Nations convoy was attacked in Dekoa area yesterday, and another between Grimai and Sibut three days earlier. Five peacekeepers were hurt.
As the Sixth Committee (Legal) began its deliberations on the Programme of Assistance in the Teaching, Dissemination and Wider Appreciation of International Law today, speakers noted that the 2016 budgetary commitments enacted by the General Assembly during its seventieth session had enabled the Programme to continue and expand its work, most notably with regard to its Regional Courses.
Following are UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s remarks at the University of Maryland on the “Do Good Generation”, in College Park, Maryland, on 14 October:
Following are UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s remarks at the opening of the United Nations Conference on Housing and Sustainable Urban Development (Habitat III), in Quito today:
Following is the text of UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s video message to the Committee on Food Security, in Rome today:
Following are UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s remarks, as prepared for delivery, to the second World Assembly of Local and Regional Governments in Quito today:
The following statement was issued today by the Spokesman for UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon:
Several nuclear-weapon States reiterated their opposition to a proposed legally binding treaty to prohibit nuclear weapons leading to their elimination, saying that such an instrument would not contribute to enhancing global peace and security, as the First Committee (Disarmament and International Security) continued its thematic debate on those arms this afternoon and heard the introduction of two draft resolutions.
The United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) today welcomed the release of 21 of the so-called Chibok schoolgirls who were captured by Boko Haram. UNFPA has prepositioned counsellors to provide emergency psychosocial support to the girls and reproductive health care for those who need it.
