The World Food Programme (WFP) distributed today desperately needed food for more than 30,000 people in and around the northern Iraqi town of Qayyarah, which is about 60 kilometres south of Mosul. The town had been under siege and inaccessible over the last two years.
The new Permanent Representative of Jordan to the United Nations, Sima Sami Bahous, presented her credentials to UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today.
Following are UN Deputy Secretary-General Jan Eliasson’s remarks at the informal interactive dialogue on “Mobilizing collective action: The next decade of the responsibility to protect”, in New York today:
Following are UN Deputy Secretary-General Jan Eliasson’s remarks at the International Organization for Migration (IOM) Fifth Global Chiefs of Mission Meeting (GCOMM) Inaugural Dinner, in Geneva, today:
The Security Council amended the Statute of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia this afternoon to enable the Secretary-General to appoint a former judge of either the Tribunal or its counterpart for Rwanda to serve on the Tribunal’s Appeals Chamber on an ad hoc and temporary basis.
On 6 September 2016, the Security Council Committee established pursuant to resolution 1518 (2003) approved the removal of the entry specified below from its List of Individuals and Entities subject to the assets freeze set out by paragraph 23 of Security Council resolution 1483 (2003) adopted under Chapter VII of the Charter of the United Nations:
The following Security Council press statement was issued today by Council President Gerard van Bohemen (New Zealand):
On 6 September 2016, the Security Council Committee pursuant to resolutions 1267 (1999), 1989 (2011) and 2253 (2015) enacted the amendments specified with underline and strikethrough in the entry below on its ISIL (Da’esh) and Al-Qaida Sanctions List of individuals and entities subject to the assets freeze, travel ban and arms embargo set out in paragraph 2 of Security Council resolution 2253 (2015) adopted under Chapter VII of the Charter of the United Nations.
Following is UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s message, as delivered by Michael Møller, Director-General of the United Nations Office at Geneva, to the Bled Strategic Forum, in Bled, Slovenia, today:
Following is UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s message, as delivered by Mary Soliman, Acting Director, Geneva Branch, Office for Disarmament Affairs, to the Sixth Meeting of the States Parties to the Convention on Cluster Munitions, in Geneva today:
