Following is UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s address to Iraq’s Council of Representatives, in Baghdad, today:
Women must be placed at the centre of efforts to prevent or resolve conflict in Africa, speakers said today as the Security Council took up the “women, peace and security agenda”, considering the role of women in creating more peaceful and equitable societies on the continent.
The following statement was issued today by the Spokesman for UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon:
Taking action without a vote as it concluded the first part of its resumed seventieth session this afternoon, the Fifth Committee (Administrative and Budgetary) approved five texts relating to Staff Regulations and Rules, special subjects in the 2016-2017 biennium programme budget, the accountability system, the Joint Inspection Unit, and questions deferred for future consideration.
The Commission on the Status of Women, closing its sixtieth session today, approved a robust set of Agreed Conclusions that the top United Nations gender official said would pave the way for a gender-responsive implementation of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development.
The Secretary-General says the International Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia’s ruling today of former Serbian President Radovan Karadžić, who has been convicted of genocide and crimes against humanity, sends a strong signal that all those in positions of responsibility will be held to account.
Amid the current bloody wave of escalating violence, including stabbings and shootings in Israel and the occupied West Bank, the international community must move beyond mere condemnations and send a clear message to both sides that a two-State solution was the best road to peace, the Secretary-General’s Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process told the Security Council today.
Determining that the proliferation of nuclear, chemical and biological weapons and their delivery means remained a threat to international peace and security, the Security Council decided today to extend the mandate of the Panel of Experts assisting the Sanctions Committee on the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea until 24 April 2017.
The United Nations observes on 25 March the ninth International Day of Remembrance of the Victims of Slavery and the Transatlantic Slave Trade.
The Security Council decided today to extend the mandate of the United Nations Assistance Mission in Somalia (UNSOM) until 31 March 2017.
