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:
The following statement was issued today by the Spokesman for UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon:
In one round of voting, the General Assembly today elected Egypt, Japan, Senegal, Ukraine and Uruguay to serve as non-permanent members of the Security Council for the next two years.
Delegates of the Sixth Committee (Legal) recognized that only actions by States could breathe life into multilateral treaties and rule of law at the international and national levels as the Committee took up consideration of that topic today.
Several speakers today in the First Committee (Disarmament and International Security) called for a legally binding framework to ban nuclear weapons, with the aim of addressing the deep-seated problems of possession and proliferation.
The plight of children living in the midst of conflict had worsened in many parts of the world, the Third Committee (Social, Humanitarian and Cultural) heard today as it began its consideration of the promotion and protection of the rights of young people with an interactive dialogue with top United Nations officials.
