Following are UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s remarks, as prepared for delivery, at an event commemorating the fortieth anniversary of Chaim Herzog’s speech against General Assembly resolution 3379 equating Zionism with racism, in New York, today:
Following are UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s remarks at the inauguration of the Fédération Internationale de l’Automobile (FIA) high-level panel on road safety, in New York today:
After concluding deliberations on the third and final cluster of topics in the report of the International Law Commission, the Sixth Committee (Legal) today approved without a vote two draft resolutions, the first on the report of the United Nations Commission on International Trade Law (UNCITRAL) and the second on the United Nations Programme of Assistance in the Teaching, Study, Dissemination and Wider Appreciation of International Law.
United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, following consultations with the Chairs of the regional groups of Member States, today informed the General Assembly of his intention to appoint Filippo Grandi of Italy as the new United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR).
The Secretary-General, meeting with Saudi King Salman, urged cooperation with the special envoys on Syria and Yemen. He expressed hope that the next Vienna meeting on Syria would devise a clear set of next steps and on Yemen, that extreme care would be taken not to harm civilians and that talks would take place this month.
Disturbing evidence of continued human rights violations in the Occupied Palestinian Territories further underscored the need for Israel to end its long-standing occupation, speakers in the Fourth Committee (Special Political and Decolonization) stressed today, as that body opened its annual debate on that country’s illegal practices in occupied lands.
Domestic resource mobilization and taxation were crucial to achieving sustainable development, several panellists stressed today at a joint meeting of the Second Committee (Economic and Financial) and the Economic and Social Council.
The following Security Council press statement was issued today by Council President Matthew Rycroft (United Kingdom):
On Wednesday, 18 November, the Holocaust and the United Nations Outreach Programme will host a round-table discussion titled “Faith, Identity and the Promotion of Peace in the Aftermath of Genocide”.
The following statement was issued today by the Spokesman for UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon:
