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.
Ending attacks on medical workers, facilities and transports in conflict hotspots — including by several of its own permanent members — must remain an urgent priority for the Security Council, speakers emphasized today as the body convened to consider hospital bombings in embattled Aleppo, Syria’s largest city.
Holding its first meeting of the General Assembly, the Second Committee (Economic and Financial) today introduced the Bureau and approved its organization of work.
Following is UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s statement on the death of Shimon Peres, former President of Israel, today:
The following statement was issued today by the Spokesman for UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon:
During its informal consultations on 16 September 2016, the Security Council Committee established pursuant to resolution 2206 (2015) concerning South Sudan was briefed by the Coordinator of the Panel of Experts on South Sudan, in connection with the Panel’s 120-day report, and by Ms. Zainab Hawa Bangura, Special Representative of the Secretary-General on Sexual Violence in Conflict.
In Mali, the United Nations Mission in the country (MINUSMA) today welcomed the International Criminal Court’s ruling recognizing Ahmad Al-Faqi Al-Mahdi as guilty of war crimes for the destruction of religious and historical monuments in Timbuktu. MINUSMA called the judgment a step forward in the fight against impunity and a strong signal against the destruction of cultural goods.
