United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today announced the appointment of Janos Pasztor of Hungary as Senior Adviser to the Secretary-General on Climate Change.
The following Security Council press statement was issued today by Council President Elbio Rosselli (Uruguay):
The following Security Council press statement was issued today by Council President Elbio Rosselli (Uruguay):
The Committee on Non-Governmental Organizations today recommended 15 organizations for special consultative status with the Economic and Social Council and deferred action on 53 others, as it continued its session.
The following statement was issued today by the Spokesman for UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon:
Following are UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s remarks at the World Economic Forum plenary session: “The New Climate and Development Imperative”, in Davos, Switzerland, on 21 January:
On Tuesday, 19 January, United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon and Madam Ban Soon-taek arrived in Geneva, Switzerland.
World Health Organization Director-General Margaret Chan briefed board members in Geneva today on the Zika situation. She said the virus is spreading explosively in the Americas and the level of alarm is extremely high. As of today, cases have been reported in 23 countries and territories in the region.
While security remained a paramount concern in Somalia, politics was increasingly displacing violence as a means of resolving differences, the Secretary-General’s Special Representative told the Security Council today, pressing it to provide a “powerful” basis for the United Nations and its African Union partners to contribute decisively to the country’s future.
The Security Council today extended the mandate of the United Nations Peacekeeping Force in Cyprus (UNFICYP) for six months, until 31 July, and decided to increase its force levels to 888, while welcoming progress in negotiations between the island nation’s Greek Cypriot and Turkish Cypriot leaders on a comprehensive and durable settlement.
