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 University of Peace Council meeting, in New York today:
More effective, human rights-based approaches were urgently needed to address the global crisis of migration governance, the top United Nations human rights official told the Third Committee (Social, Humanitarian and Cultural) today, as it continued debating the issue in a series of interactive dialogues.
The following statement was issued today by the Spokesman for UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon:
No one should accept as valid the arguments preferred by nuclear-weapon States and those within their military alliances that there were no security conditions in place to bring about nuclear disarmament, the First Committee (Disarmament and International Security) heard today as it continued its thematic debate on nuclear weapons.
The Special Representative of the Secretary-General in Haiti, Sandra Honoré, released a video and radio message ahead of Sunday’s elections. She stressed that there is no room for violence in the electoral process and called on all Haitians to show their engagement for democracy and stability in the country.
The Fifth Committee (Administrative and Budgetary) today began its examination of conference management, including issues related to overall costs, multilingual translation and interpretation, document issuance, and the use of resources and facilities, while approving proposed revisions to programme planning and evaluation rules as well as recommended ways to better implement results-based budgeting.
The General Assembly today elected 18 members of the Economic and Social Council to serve three-year terms beginning 1 January 2016.
Following is UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s message, delivered by Rana Flowers, United Nations Children’s Fund representative, to the fourth International Conference on Poverty Reduction and Early Child Development – “Investing in Early Child Development to Reduce Poverty and Improve Equality in Development”, held in Beijing from 21 to 24 October:
In celebration of the seventieth anniversary of the United Nations and in honour of legendary former Secretary-General Dag Hammarskjöld, United Nations Deputy Secretary-General Jan Eliasson will join internationally renowned pianist Per Tengstrand for an evening of readings and music inspired by Mr. Hammarskjöld’s book, Markings (1963).
