United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has appointed Hélène Papper of France as Director of the United Nations Information Centre in Bogota, which serves Colombia, Ecuador and Venezuela. Ms. Papper assumes her duties today.
Following is UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s message, delivered by Cristina Gallach, Under-Secretary-General for Communications and Public Information, to the commemoration of World Wildlife Day, in New York today:
Following are UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s remarks, delivered by Cristina Gallach, Under-Secretary-General for Communications and Public Information, at the fortieth annual United Nations International School (UNIS) International Student Conference in New York today:
The following statement was issued by the United Nations and the African Union today in New York and Addis Ababa:
The Secretary-General met with Burkina Faso’s President in Ouagadougou, the nation’s capital, this morning and said he was able to see remarkable progress in his third visit to the country, but remained deeply concerned about terrorist attacks across the region.
Following is UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s message, delivered by Cristina Gallach, Under-Secretary-General for Communications and Public Information, to the Italian Diplomatic Academy event “The United Nations: 70 Years of Successes and Challenges”, in New York today:
United Nations-Secretary General Ban Ki-moon today announced the appointment of Gerda Verburg of the Netherlands as Coordinator of the Scaling Up Nutrition (SUN) Movement.
The United Nations humanitarian chief, in a briefing to the Security Council, called today for greater international pressure on the parties to the conflict in Yemen in order to better protect civilians, facilitate relief access to all parts of the country, and encourage the resumption of peace talks and a cessation of hostilities.
With Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL/Da’esh) a growing threat to Libya, as well as the wider region and beyond, the fight against violent extremism in that country could only be sustainable if it was led by a national unity Government, the Secretary-General’s Special Representative there told the Security Council today.
The Security Council today condemned in the strongest terms the nuclear test conducted by the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea on 6 January 2016 “in violation and flagrant disregard” of the relevant resolutions, its actions thereby constituting a challenge to the Treaty on Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT) and to peace and stability in the region and beyond.
