The Secretary-General welcomes the ratification by Somalia of the Convention on the Rights of the Child and encourages the United States, the only State yet to ratify the 1989 treaty, to do so.
On 2 October 2015, the Security Council Committee pursuant to resolutions 1267 (1999) and 1989 (2011) approved the addition of the entries specified below to its Al-Qaida Sanctions List of individuals and entities subject to the assets freeze, travel ban and arms embargo set out in paragraph 1 of Security Council resolution 2161 (2014) adopted under Chapter VII of the Charter of the United Nations:
On the side-lines of the busy seventieth general debate at United Nations Headquarters, 24 Member States undertook 31 treaty actions in an annual four-day event that ended yesterday.
The following statement was issued today by the Spokesman for UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon:
The following statement was issued today by the Spokesman for UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon:
From the mountains to the seas, from the Caribbean to the Arctic, global warming was a global problem, and small countries were especially at risk, the General Assembly heard today as it continued its annual general debate on the fifth day.
Following are UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s remarks at a special event marking the International Day of Non-violence, in New York today:
Following is the text of UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s video message for the sixth International Military Sports Council Military World Summer Games, in Mungyeong, Republic of Korea, today:
Following are UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s remarks at the high-level event on Libya, in New York today:
Following are UN Deputy Secretary-General Jan Eliasson’s remarks at the ministerial consultative meeting on the Malian peace process, in New York today:
