Following is UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s message, delivered by Janos Pasztor, Assistant Secretary-General on Climate Change, to the meeting of the Vulnerable Twenty Group of Ministers of Finance, in Lima today:
In light of the bribery accusations of former General Assembly President John Ashe, the Secretary-General is asking the Office of Internal Oversight Services (OIOS) to begin an audit of the United Nations dealings with and use of any funds received from the Global Sustainability Foundation and the Sun Kian Ip Group.
Following is UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s message on the International Day of Rural Women, observed on 15 October:
Following is UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s message for the International Day for Disaster Reduction, observed on 13 October:
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 Susana Malcorra, Chef de Cabinet, to the Women in Parliaments Global Forum, held in Mexico City from 7 to 9 October:
United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today announced the appointment of Maman S. Sidikou of Niger as his Special Representative for the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Head of the United Nations Organization Stabilization Mission in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (MONUSCO).
Mr. Sidikou succeeds Martin Kobler of Germany, to whom the Secretary-General is grateful for his important contribution and dedicated service for the past two years in supporting the implementation of the MONUSCO mandate.
On 2 October 2015, the United Nations-African Union Joint Task Force on Peace and Security held its eleventh consultative meeting at United Nations Headquarters in New York, on the margins of the seventieth session of the United Nations General Assembly. The United Nations Secretariat and African Union Commission were represented by senior officials from the two organizations.
Haiti’s success in conducting the first round of long-awaited legislative elections, reforming its criminal code and maintaining a generally stable security environment was evidence of “a new order” that was paving the way for the United Nations to rethink the size and strength of its future presence on the island nation, agreed speakers in the Security Council today.
The following Security Council press statement was issued today by Council President Román Oyarzun Marchesi (Spain):
