The following statement was issued today by the Spokesman for UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon:
The following statement was issued today by the Spokesman for UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon:
An hour before it was due to go into effect, the Security Council today endorsed the cessation of hostilities agreement aimed at ending five years of bloodshed in Syria.
A decade after world leaders agreed on the responsibility to protect at a Headquarters world summit, the principle remained a worthy yet elusive concept, with success seen in some places, but with Syria standing out as a glaring example of the international community’s failure to put it into practice, delegates said during a General Assembly thematic panel discussion today.
The Secretary-General is following with great concern the increasing number of border restrictions along the Balkan land route that are not in line with the 1951 Refugee Convention and is calling on all countries to keep their borders open and to act in a spirit of responsibility, sharing and solidarity.
Following are UN Deputy-Secretary-General Jan Eliasson’s remarks to the fourteenth Coordination Meeting on International Migration, in New York today:
The most important elements of the Security Council’s work in February were still to come, speakers said during the 15-member organ’s monthly “wrap-up” meeting today.
The following statement was issued today by the Spokesman for UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon:
Following are UN Deputy Secretary-General Jan Eliasson’s remarks at the General Assembly’s thematic panel discussion “From commitment to implementation: Ten years of the responsibility to protect”, in New York, today:
The Security Council extended the mandate of the United Nations Integrated Peacebuilding Office in Guinea-Bissau (UNIOGBIS) for one year today, amid a political crisis in that country and ahead of the Council’s visit to West Africa in March.
