Following are UN Deputy Secretary-General Jan Eliasson’s remarks, as prepared for delivery, at the side event “Investing in Somali Youth” at the High-Level Partnership Forum on Somalia, in Istanbul today:
Following is UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s address to the Great Lakes Private Sector Investment Conference, in Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of the Congo, today:
The Security Council today extended for one year its sanctions on those threatening stability in Yemen, as well as the mandate of the Panel of Experts assisting the committee charged with overseeing those measures.
A seminar for African parliamentarians on the implementation of Security Council resolution 1540 (2004) was held in Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire, on 22-23 February.
Member States and the United Nations must stop viewing peacebuilding solely as a post-conflict activity and focus more on coordinated programming and funding to prevent war and relapse into conflict, speakers in the Security Council said today.
The United Nations must manage protracted crises more effectively, and overcome operational and funding silos to achieve lasting solutions, speakers in the Economic and Social Council agreed today, calling upon all entities to “deliver as one”.
On 23 February 2016, the Security Council Committee pursuant to resolutions 1267 (1999), 1989 (2011) and 2253 (2015) enacted the amendments specified with underline and strikethrough in the entries below on its ISIL (Da’esh) and Al-Qaida Sanctions List of individuals and entities subject to the assets freeze, travel ban and arms embargo set out in paragraph 2 of Security Council resolution 2253 (2015) adopted under Chapter VII of the Charter of the United Nations.
Convoys in Syria are bringing life-saving food and medical supplies to 20,000 people in need in Moadamiyeh and 10,000 people in Kafr Batna following the delivery of aid to five besieged towns last week as the humanitarian community continues to call for access to the 4.6 million people in hard-to-reach towns.
The following Security Council press statement was issued today by Council President Rafael Darío Ramírez Carreño (Venezuela):
The United Nations must reform its development system by adapting its silo structure to work flexibly across sectors, tailoring programmes to specific country priorities and diversifying its funding sources in order to meet the unprecedented multisectoral demands of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, delegates stressed today, as the Economic and Social Council opened its 2016 operational activities segment.
