Following is UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s statement calling for the observance of the Olympic Truce for the 2016 Olympic and Paralympic Games in Rio de Janeiro, starting on 29 July:
The Security Council today extended the mandate of the United Nations Assistance Mission for Iraq (UNAMI) until 31 July 2017, emphasizing the importance of efforts to support the country’s stabilization, particularly those areas liberated from Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL/Da’esh).
Opening a three-day coordination and management session today, the Economic and Social Council considered a range of issues — from regional cooperation to the participation of non-governmental organizations at United Nations proceedings —adopting seven resolutions and seven decisions.
The United Nations humanitarian affairs chief called today for the immediate establishment of a weekly, 48-hour pause in fighting so that urgently needed assistance could reach 250,000 people trapped in besieged eastern Aleppo and other hard-to-reach places in Syria.
The following statement was issued today by the Spokesman for UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon:
The United Nations announced that Monica Chelliah has won the Unite Ideas #Electricity4All Python programming challenge. She was presented with the award during the High-Level Political Forum on Sustainable Development.
Following is UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s message to the League of Arab States Summit, delivered by Ismail Ould Cheikh Ahmed, Special Envoy for Yemen, in Nouakchott today:
A United Nations report published today shows a record number of civilian casualties in Afghanistan, with 5,166 recorded killed or maimed in the first six months of 2016 — an increase of 4 per cent in total casualties compared to the first six months of 2015, and the highest half-year total since 2009.
The following statement was issued today by the Spokesman for UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon:
The following Security Council press statement was issued today by Council President Koro Bessho (Japan):
