The Security Council, in a statement issued this morning, urged Lebanon’s leaders to show flexibility and to put stability and the national interest ahead of partisan politics, as it reaffirmed its call for the country’s Parliament to convene urgently to elect a new President.
Effective development cooperation — marked by fresh thinking, better coordination and concrete action — would be critical to making good on the unprecedented opportunities presented by the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, speakers said today, as the Development Cooperation Forum opened its fifth biennial high-level meeting.
Following are UN Deputy Secretary-General Jan Eliasson’s opening remarks at the fifth biennial High-level Meeting of the Development Cooperation Forum, in New York today:
The World Meteorological Organization (WMO) warns that 2016 is on track to be the world’s hottest year on record. The organization says that that this trend underscores the need to approve and implement the Paris Agreement on climate change, and to speed up the shift to low carbon economies and renewable energy.
The following statement was issued today by the Spokesman for UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon:
On 21 July 2016, the Security Council Committee established pursuant to resolution 1988 (2011) enacted the amendments specified with strikethrough and underline in the entry below to its List (the 1988 List) of individuals and entities subject to the assets freeze, travel ban and arms embargo set out in paragraph 1 of Security Council resolution 2255 (2015) adopted under Chapter VII of the Charter of the United Nations.
A. Individuals
Following is UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s message, delivered by Jeffrey Feltman, Under-Secretary-General for Political Affairs, for the inauguration of the new premises of the United Nations Regional Office for Central Africa (UNOCA), in Libreville today:
Following are UN Deputy Secretary-General Jan Eliasson’s remarks at the High-level Political Forum Side Event on Water, Sanitation and Hygiene, in New York today:
United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon left Nairobi, Kenya, on the evening of 17 July, for Durban, South Africa, in order to attend the AIDS2016 Conference.
United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon left Kigali, Rwanda, for Nairobi, Kenya, on 17 July for the opening of the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD 14).
