The Security Council today decided to appoint Serge Brammertz as Prosecutor of the International Residual Mechanisms for Criminal Tribunals for a term beginning on 1 March 2016 and ending on 30 June 2018.
The Secretary-General said today that, by and large, the cessation of hostilities is holding in Syria, although there have been some scattered incidents. He expressed his sincere hope that the cessation of hostilities will continue and will allow the United Nations to deliver humanitarian aid.
Voicing deep concern over the situation in Ukraine, the Chair-in-Office of the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) stressed the need for greater confidence- and security-building measures amid the conflict there.
Following are UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s remarks to the high-level panel discussion on “The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and Human Rights”, at the Human Rights Council, in Geneva today:
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:
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.
