The General Assembly today elected Italy to the Security Council for a two-year term from 1 January 2017, with that country’s representative saying it would cede its place to Netherlands after one year.
Following are UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s remarks to the General Assembly review of the Global Counter-Terrorism Strategy, in New York today:
Concluding its 2016 resumed session today, the Special Committee on Decolonization approved two draft resolutions, as its Chair reflected on the need to move past the stagnation characterizing the current state of decolonization efforts around the world.
Some 3.6 million children in Iraq - one in five in the country - are at serious risk of death, injury, sexual violence, abduction and recruitment into armed groups, according to a new report from the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF), reflecting an increase of 1.3 million at-risk children in 18 months.
Following are UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s remarks at the General Assembly tribute to John W. Ashe, President of the sixty-eighth session of the General Assembly, in New York today:
The sixteenth Meeting of States Parties to the Convention on the Rights of the Child elected nine members to four-year terms on the related United Nations Committee, while appointing Muhammad Anshor (Indonesia) as its Chairperson.
The following statement was issued today by the Spokesman for UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon:
United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon travelled to Gaza by the Erez crossing on Tuesday morning, 28 June, where he visited the building site of the Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa Hospital for Rehabilitation and Prosthetic Limbs, which is scheduled to be built later this year. He was also briefed on other infrastructure projects funded by Qatar.
United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon arrived in Tel Aviv from Kuwait City on Monday morning, 27 June.
United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon arrived in Kuwait from Paris on Saturday night, 25 June.
