Sounding a united call for future reports of the Security Council to the General Assembly to be more analytical and less descriptive, a score of non-Council Member States today addressed specific conflict situations, as well as cross-cutting issues affecting cooperation between the Council and other organs of the United Nations.

United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon arrived in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, early on Monday evening, 9 November, to take part in the Fourth Summit of Arab and South American countries.

A draft resolution that would see the General Assembly address the global refugee crisis and the role of the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) was among four texts approved today without a vote by the Third Committee (Social, Humanitarian and Cultural).

On 12 November 2015, the Security Council Committee pursuant to resolutions 1267 (1999) and 1989 (2011) concerning Al-Qaida and associated individuals and entities removed the names below from the Al-Qaida Sanctions List.

Following is UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s message for World Diabetes Day, observed on 14 November:

Deputy Secretary-General Jan Eliasson, in a joint statement with the African Union Chairperson, expressed alarm at the widening divisions in Burundi and the threat of many more lives lost and a deep regional crisis.  They pledged to work closely and to mobilize all means to prevent a further deterioration of the situation.

The Security Council today strongly condemned increasing killings, torture and other human rights violations in Burundi, and stated its intention to consider “additional measures” against all actors whose actions and statements impeded the search for a peaceful solution to the crisis in the East African nation.

Unanimously approving a draft resolution on special political missions today, the Fourth Committee (Special Political and Decolonization) also concluded its general debate on Israel’s practices in occupied Arab territories, with delegations condemning its blockade of the Gaza Strip, violence by settlers and other human rights violations.

The Economic and Social Council today adopted one draft decision on the distribution of seats for experts in the Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues, deferred action on the theme for the Council’s integration segment in 2016, and filled vacancies in some subsidiary bodies.

Following are Deputy Secretary-General Jan Eliasson’s remarks at the Valletta Summit on Migration, in Valletta today: