The following statement was issued today by the Spokesman for UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon:
Following is UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s message, delivered by Margaret Chan, Director-General of the World Health Organization, to the second Global High-Level Conference on Road Safety, held in Brasilia, 18-19 November:
Following is UN Secretary-General’s message to the forty-first plenary Assembly of the World Federation of United Nations Associations, held in Vancouver, Canada, 18-20 November:
United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon welcomes today’s action by the General Assembly to elect Filippo Grandi of Italy as the next United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR).
Following are UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s remarks at the second UN Special Thematic Session on Water and Disasters, in New York today:
The following statement was issued today by the Spokesman for UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon:
The General Assembly today adopted, by a recorded vote of 99 in favour to none against, with 10 abstentions (Bolivia, Chad, Cuba, Nicaragua, Russian Federation, Sudan, Syria, United Republic of Tanzania, Venezuela and Zimbabwe), a resolution on the report of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA).
Delegates at today’s Fifth Committee (Administrative and Budgetary) meeting aired their concerns on the financing of the proposed renovation of the historic Palais des Nations in Geneva – estimated to tally nearly $1 billion - and the Secretariat’s first year of work in carrying out a comprehensive information and communications technology strategy.
Addressing the Security Council today at its open debate on security, development and the root causes of conflicts, the Secretary-General stressed the need for a greater focus on prevention, human rights and strengthening coherence among all actors.
The Third Committee (Social, Humanitarian and Cultural) today rejected one text and sent another six draft resolutions to the General Assembly, among them a draft that would have the world body urge States not to return a person to another State if he or she faced risks of being subjected to torture and to ensure that border control operations and reception centres fully complied with human rights.
