The Fifth Committee (Administrative and Budgetary) today approved a draft resolution supporting the Board of Auditors’ recommendations concerning the renovation of the United Nations Headquarters in Geneva and the Organization’s handling of information and communications technology affairs.
A new report by the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP) says the region continued to be the world’s most disaster-prone in 2015, suffering more than half the 344 disasters worldwide, which resulted in more than 16,000 deaths and some 59 million affected.
The Chairperson of the African Union Commission, Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma, and the Secretary-General of the United Nations, Ban Ki-moon, condemn Wednesday’s attack on the African Union-United Nations Hybrid Operation in Darfur (UNAMID) by an unknown armed group, in which one South African peacekeeper was killed and another wounded. The attack took place 40 kilometres south-west of Kutum, North Darfur, while the peacekeepers, on patrol, were travelling from Kutum to Djarido.
The following statement was issued today by the Spokesman for UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon:
United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon arrived in Geneva from New York early on Monday morning, 29 February.
Following is UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s message on the upcoming fifth anniversary of the great east Japan earthquake and tsunami, in New York today:
Following are UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s remarks to the Security Council on sexual exploitation and abuse, in New York today:
A total of 34 countries, including 27 in Africa, are currently in need of external assistance for food due to drought, flooding and civil conflicts, according to a new edition of the Food and Agriculture Organization’s Crop Prospects and Food Situation report, which is available online.
United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today announced the appointment of Jean Arnault of France as his Special Representative and Head of the United Nations Mission in Colombia.
The Head of the United Nations-Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (UN-OPCW) Joint Investigative Mechanism, Virginia Gamba, is pleased to announce that the European Union has donated €4.6 million to be divided equally between the Mechanism and OPCW Special Missions in Syria.
