The Economic and Social Council adopted, without a vote, five draft decisions on dates and themes of upcoming high-level meetings.
Concluding its 2016 session, the Special Committee on Peacekeeping Operations adopted without a vote today the draft report of the session, laying out the proposals, recommendations and conclusions submitted by its Working Group of the Whole on a wide range of peacekeeping issues.
Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon called upon Governments, businesses and others around the world to step up efforts for gender equality, as he opened the sixtieth session of the Commission on the Status of Women which, over two weeks, will underscore the crucial role of women in implementing and achieving the Sustainable Development Goals.
As the Fifth Committee (Administrative and Budgetary) discussed the use of more flexible and open workplace at the United Nations, delegates raised concerns about upwardly revised cost estimates for the now $65.7 million project, and that an assessment of its impact on productivity and staff well-being had not been finalized.
On 9 March 2016, the Security Council Committee established pursuant to resolution 2127 (2013) concerning the Central African Republic held a meeting to discuss the sanctions-monitoring mandate of the United Nations Multidimensional Integrated Stabilization Mission in the Central African Republic (MINUSCA) and the role of the United Nations Mine Action Service (UNMAS) in the management of weapons and ammunition management in that country.
The following Security Council press statement was issued today by Council President Ismael Abraão Gaspar Martins (Angola):
Our colleagues at the United Nations Mission in Mali (MINUSMA) issued a weekend press release saying that a peacekeeper in the Tessalit camp fired at three of his colleagues on Saturday night. Two peacekeepers were killed and the other injured. An investigation is underway to determine the circumstances of the incident.
Following are UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s remarks at the opening of the sixtieth session of the Commission on the Status of Women, in New York today:
The following statement was issued today by the Spokesman for UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon:
Following is UN Secretary-General Ban ki-moon’s message, delivered by Cristina Gallach, Under-Secretary-General for Communications and Public Information, to the thirty-eighth annual Lions Day at the United Nations, in New York today:
