The unique challenges of countries in special situations needed to stay at the forefront of efforts to achieve the 2030 Agenda on Sustainable Development Agenda speakers said today, as the High-level Political Forum continued.
The World Health Organization today officially declared the elimination of yaws, as well as maternal and neonatal tetanus in India, the first country under the 2012 WHO neglected tropical diseases road map to eliminate yaws. Indonesia and Timor-Leste are now the only countries in the region with yaws transmission.
United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon and Madam Ban Soon-taek arrived in Beijing from New York on the evening of 6 July.
Following is UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s message for World Youth Skills Day, observed on 15 July:
Following is UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s message, delivered by Miguel de Serpa Soares, Under-Secretary-General for Legal Affairs and Legal Counsel, to the event marking International Criminal Justice Day, in New York today:
National-level implementation of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development must be country owned and context specific, with its goals closely linked to national values and priorities, stressed speakers as the High-level Political Forum on Sustainable Development entered its third day.
The following statement was issued today by the Spokesman for UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon:
While creating institutions to promote and protect human rights and ratifying conventions were important, the true test lay in actions, the General Assembly heard today as it concluded its two-day high-level thematic debate, titled “UN@70 – Human rights at the centre of the global agenda”.
The Security Council must urgently consider imposing an arms embargo on South Sudan, the head of United Nations peacekeeping said today while briefing members today on the crisis evolving in that country.
As violence escalates in and around Aleppo city, Syria, Yacoub El Hillo, the United Nations Resident and Humanitarian Coordinator in Syria, and Kevin Kennedy, the Regional Humanitarian Coordinator for the Syria Crisis, say 200,000 to 300,000 people are now closer to the line of fire and at risk of besiegement since 7 July.
