Following is the text of UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s video message to the International Peace and Security Institute Symposium on Countering Violent Extremism, in Washington, D.C., today:
The Prosecutor of the Residual Mechanism for International Criminal Tribunals, Serge Brammertz, will appeal the trial judgement against the Serbian politician Vojislav Šešelj, who was acquitted of all charges, including crimes against humanity, by the International Tribunal for Former Yugoslavia on 31 March.
The Economic and Social Council today concluded the first set of coordination and management meetings of its 2016 session, completing the election of representatives to several of its subsidiary bodies.
Intensified fighting since January had resulted in a rapidly worsening security situation and large-scale displacement in Darfur, the Under-Secretary-General for Peacekeeping Operations told the Security Council today.
Following are UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s remarks, as prepared for delivery, to the Los Angeles World Affairs Council in Los Angeles, California, today:
Launching a series of coordination and management meetings for its 2016 session, the Economic and Social Council today took stock of current strategies and identified new ways in which the United Nations and its partners could better coordinate efforts to support the world’s least developed countries and ensure no nation or person was left behind in global development.
The United Nations Office of Information and Communications Technology will host “Open Camps @ UN 2016” from 8 to 17 July at the Organization’s New York City Headquarters, the Office announced today.
United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, accompanied by Madam Ban Soon-taek, arrived in Baden-Baden, from Algiers, in the afternoon of Monday, 7 March.
Special Representative for Libya Martin Kobler is in Tripoli, Libya – his first visit to the country since the Presidency Council’s arrival in the capital last week. Mr. Kobler met with Prime Minister-designate Fayez al-Sarraj, members of the Presidency Council and representatives of the Grand Tripoli municipalities.
United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon arrived in Tindouf from Nouakchott on Saturday morning, 5 March.
