The new Permanent Representative of Bangladesh to the United Nations, Masud Bin Momen, presented his credentials to UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today.

The new Permanent Representative of Djibouti to the United Nations, Mohamed Siad Doualeh, presented his credentials to UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today.

The new Permanent Representative of Guatemala to the United Nations, José Alberto Sandoval Cojulún, presented his credentials to UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today.

The new Permanent Representative of Mauritius to the United Nations, Jagdish Dharamchand Koonjul, presented his credentials to UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today.

Following are UN Deputy Secretary-General Jan Eliasson’s remarks at an informal meeting of the General Assembly to consider ways to advance a comprehensive response to the global humanitarian and refugee crisis, in New York today:

The Department of Public Information/Non-Governmental Organizations (NGO) Committee associated 15 NGOs with the United Nations Department of Public Information and disassociated one organization on Friday, 20 November.

Our colleagues in South Sudan say the situation there continues to deteriorate.  Humanitarian agencies report that an estimated 7.5 million people are now food insecure and an unprecedented malaria outbreak is affecting nearly all the states.  Over 2.3 million have been forced to flee their homes since the conflict began.

Draft resolutions that would see the General Assembly address such topics as the Palestinian people’s right to self-determination and the impact of mercenaries and globalization on human rights were among 13 texts approved today by the Third Committee (Social, Humanitarian and Cultural).

In a meeting commemorating the International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People, to be observed 29 November, the Permanent Observer of the State of Palestine called on the international community to stop selective and biased policies in applying justice, stressing that the lack of implementation of United Nations resolutions on Israel enabled that country to continue behaving as “a State above the law”.

Following are Deputy Secretary-General Jan Eliasson’s remarks at the meeting on the International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People, in New York today: