The Secretary-General and his Special Envoy, Staffan de Mistura, participated in the meeting of the International Syria Support Group in New York outside United Nations Headquarters. The Secretary-General also briefed the Security Council’s open meeting about the latest developments concerning Syria.
Following is the text of Deputy Secretary-General Jan Eliasson’s remarks to a panel on the occasion of International Migrants Day, in New York, today:
Acting on the recommendation of its Third Committee (Social, Humanitarian and Cultural), the General Assembly adopted 57 draft resolutions and seven draft decisions today, tackling a wide range of issues from the global refugee crisis to the rights of the child, as well as human rights defenders and country-specific human rights situations.
In a sweeping move to suppress the financing of terrorism, the Security Council today expanded and strengthened its Al-Qaida sanctions framework to include a focus on Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL/Da’esh) in an unprecedented meeting that heard finance ministers from around the world outline efforts to dismantle funding channels to a terrorist group now in control of large swaths of Iraq and Syria.
Following are UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s remarks to the Security Council meeting of Finance Ministers on countering the financing of terrorism, in New York today:
The following statement was issued today by the Spokesman for UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon:
On Tuesday, 8 December, in the evening, United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon flew from Paris, France, to Helsinki, Finland, to participate in the commemoration of the sixtieth anniversary of the country’s membership in the United Nations.
The following statement by UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon was issued today:
On 17 December 2015, the Security Council Committee established pursuant to resolution 2127 (2013) concerning the Central African Republic approved the following two individuals as subject to the measures imposed by paragraphs 4 and 7 of resolution 2196 (2015):
The Secretary-General accepts the broad findings of an external review’s report which found that the United Nations “failed to respond meaningfully” to claims of sexual abuse of children by foreign troops in the Central African Republic. He vows to urgently review the report’s recommendations and act quickly.
