United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, accompanied by Madam Ban Soon-taek, flew on Saturday, 26 March, from Erbil, Iraq, to Amman, Jordan, for a joint visit with Jim Yong Kim, President of the World Bank Group.
United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon flew on Saturday, 26 March, from Beirut, Lebanon, to Baghdad, Iraq, for a joint visit with Jim Yong Kim, President of the World Bank Group, and Mohamed Ali Al-Madani, President of the Islamic Development Bank.
United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, accompanied by Madam Ban Soon-taek, flew on Wednesday, 23 March, from New York to Beirut, Lebanon, the first leg of a joint visit to the Middle East and North Africa region with Jim Yong Kim, President of the World Bank Group, and Mohamed Ali Al-Madani, President of the Islamic Development Bank.
The United Nations Security Council must shoulder its responsibility vis-à-vis international protection in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, the Committee on the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People heard during a brief meeting this afternoon.
The Humanitarian Affairs Office is concerned that hundreds of thousands of Ukrainians fear for their status as internally displaced persons, which legally entitles them to receive social welfare payments. The Government has suspended payments and started a verification procedure, suspecting fraud schemes.
Determining that the situation in South Sudan posed a continuing threat to regional peace and security, the Security Council today renewed, until 1 June, the sanctions imposed by resolution 2206 (2015) against those blocking peace in the war-torn country, including a travel ban and a freeze on their assets.
Following are UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s remarks, as prepared for delivery, upon receiving an honorary doctorate of humane letters from Loyola Marymount University, in Los Angeles, California, today:
Following is the text of UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s video message congratulating the United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO) on its fiftieth anniversary:
Following is UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s message for World Health Day, observed on 7 April:
Following is UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s message on the International Day of Reflection on the Genocide in Rwanda, observed on 7 April:
