The Fourth Committee (Special Political and Decolonization) concluded its consideration of decolonization questions this morning, forwarding 11 draft resolutions to the General Assembly, five of which it approved by recorded votes.
The Organization’s financial indicators for 2015 were “generally sound and positive,” except for the cash position of the regular budget, whose funds had been depleted, the United Nations senior management official told the Fifth Committee (Administrative and Budgetary) today.
Following is UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s message for World Food Day, 16 October:
The General Assembly voted to elect incoming members of the Security Council for two-year terms starting in 2016. Egypt, Japan, Senegal, Ukraine and Uruguay will all join the Council. A chart showing the Council’s membership in 2016 is available in the Office of the Spokesman for the Secretary-General.
The following statement was issued today by the Spokesman for UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon:
Following is the text of UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s video message for the Conference on Strengthening Global Food and Nutrition Security through Research and Innovation, in Milan today:
Following is UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s message, as delivered by Haile Menkerios, his Special Representative to the African Union and Head of the United Nations Office to the African Union, to the fifth High-Level Meeting of the Interregional Dialogue on Democracy, held in Addis Ababa on 15 and 16 October:
Following are UN Deputy Secretary-General Jan Eliasson’s remarks at the World Humanitarian Summit Global Consultation, today in Geneva, Switzerland:
NEW YORK, 15 October (Division for Ocean Affairs and the Law of the Sea) ― The Commission on the Limits of the Continental Shelf will hold its thirty-ninth session from 19 October to 4 December.
Following is UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s address to the Chamber of Senate and Deputies, in Rome today:
