The General Assembly’s three-day high-level plenary meeting on HIV/AIDS concluded today amid calls for redoubled efforts and greater funding to eradicate the epidemic by 2030, as called for in the Sustainable Development Goals.
The Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs reported that the joint United Nations-Syrian Arab Red Crescent truck convoy delivered food for 2,400 people in Daraya, Syria, the first food supply in years, as well as water, hygiene, sanitation and other supplies for about 4,000 people.
All facets of United Nations peacekeeping missions had a vital role to play in keeping civilians safe, speakers in the Security Council said today, as high-ranking officials, including a Head of State and several ministers, participated in a wide-ranging open debate on the protection of civilians in the context of peacekeeping operations.
Following an amendment on the review of working methods and other related matters, the Committee on Non-Governmental Organizations today adopted the report of its 2016 May-June session, during which it recommended to the Economic and Social Council 188 organizations for consultative status and deferred 235 for further consideration at its regular session in 2017.
United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon arrived in Paris from New York, in the early morning of Friday, 3 June, to take part in a French ministerial conference meeting on the Middle East.
On Thursday evening, 26 May, United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, with Madam Ban Soon-taek, arrived in Nagoya, Japan, from Jeju Island in the Republic of Korea.
United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon arrived on Jeju Island on Wednesday afternoon, 25 May, coming directly from Istanbul, where he had attended the first World Humanitarian Summit.
Following is UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s message on the 100-day countdown to the International Day of Peace, observed on 21 September:
Following are UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s remarks to the Security Council open debate on the protection of civilians in armed conflict, in New York today:
Following are UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s remarks to the Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) Gala, in New York today:
