United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon announced today the appointment of Lieutenant General Johnson Mogoa Kimani Ondieki of Kenya as Force Commander of the United Nations Mission in South Sudan (UNMISS).
Following his nomination by United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, the General Assembly today elected Erik Solheim of Norway to a four-year term as Executive Director of the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP).
Development projects that could have wide-ranging impacts on the traditional lands and territories of indigenous peoples needed to be subject to free, prior and informed consent, the Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues heard today.
About 80,000 people have been newly displaced by escalating armed conflict in Iraq since the beginning of March, as military operations by Iraqi security forces and allied armed groups intensify against Da’esh. New displacement has occurred in the Anbar corridor, the Mosul corridor and in northern Salah al-Din.
Following is UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s message on the International Day for Biological Diversity, observed on 22 May:
The following Security Council press statement was issued today by Council President Amr Abdellatif Aboulatta (Egypt):
On 12 May 2016, the Security Council Committee established pursuant to resolution 1970 (2011) concerning Libya removed the entry specified below from its List of individuals and entities subject to the assets freeze, travel ban and other measures relating to attempts to illicitly export crude oil from Libya (the Libya Sanctions List), set out in paragraphs 15 and 17 of Security Council resolution 1970 (2011), paragraph 19 of resolution 1973 (2011) and paragraph 10 of resolution 2146 (2014), adopted under Chapter VII of the Charter of the United Nations.
The following Security Council press statement was issued today by Council President Amr Abdellatif Aboulatta (Egypt):
Following are UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s remarks, as prepared for delivery, at a meeting with Syrian students, in Lisbon today:
The Chairperson of the African Union Commission, Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma, and the Secretary-General of the United Nations, Ban Ki-moon, condemn Monday’s attacks by armed groups on an internally displaced persons camp and the shooting at a nearby market in Sortoni, North Darfur.
