On 17 January 2016, the Security Council removed the name below from the 2231 List after concluding its consideration of the delisting request.

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 Elio Rosselli (Uruguay):

Siege and starvation had become systematic in Syria, the Assistant Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs told the Security Council today during a meeting that heard calls for immediate, unhindered access for the delivery of humanitarian assistance to besieged and hard-to-reach areas of the country, as well as warnings that using starvation as a weapon amounted to a war crime.

The Secretary-General today briefed the General Assembly on his plan of action to prevent violent extremism, calling for a new global partnership to confront this menace.  He stressed that violent extremism is a direct assault on the United Nations Charter and poses a grave threat to international peace and security.

Terrorism — and attempts to address both its root causes and colossal humanitarian impacts — pushed the Security Council towards new ground in 2015, with the 15-member body taking far-reaching actions to redefine threats to international peace and security, while struggling to adapt quickly to the technologies and conditions inflaming situations across the Middle East, Africa and other regions.

The following Security Council press statement was issued today by Council President Elbio Rosselli (Uruguay):

On 15 January 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 entry 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:

United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today announced the appointment of Major General Hassen Ebrahim Mussa of Ethiopia as Force Commander of the United Nations Interim Security Force for Abyei (UNISFA).

The twenty-fifth Meeting of States Parties to the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea resumed today, electing by secret ballot one member of its International Tribunal and postponing an election to fill a vacancy in its Commission on the Limits of the Continental Shelf.