With Liberia having turned a corner from its unprecedented Ebola health emergency, the people and Government now had the important work of continuing to build a unified and reconciled nation fully responsible for its own destiny, the top United Nations peacekeeping official told the Security Council today.
Following are UN Secretary-General’s remarks to the informal meeting of the General Assembly to observe the International Day against Nuclear Tests, in New York today:
Peace did not automatically result from ending conflict, but rather from building societies that embraced diversity, equality, democratic participation and access to education, senior United Nations officials and eminent peace advocates stressed today during the General Assembly’s annual High-Level Forum on the Culture of Peace.
Following is UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s message for World Tourism Day 2015 under the theme “One Billion Tourists, One Billion Opportunities”, observed 27 September:
BRUSSELS, 8 September — Israeli settlement expansion would kill hope for an agreement towards the establishment of two sovereign States existing side by side peacefully, experts told the International Meeting on the Question of Palestine, which concluded this afternoon.
On 9 September 2015, the Security Council Committee pursuant to resolutions 1267 (1999) and 1989 (2011) concerning Al-Qaida and associated individuals and entities removed the name below from the Al-Qaida Sanctions List after concluding its consideration of the delisting requests for this name submitted through the Office of the Ombudsperson established pursuant to Security Council resolution 1904 (2009), and after considering the Comprehensive Report of the Ombudsperson on this delisting request.
In South Sudan, the World Food Programme and UNICEF today launched a joint plan to reach more than 2 million people to help reverse the dire malnutrition situation. In Yemen, where global acute malnutrition nearly doubled since 2014, the World Health Organization and partners set up mobile centres serving 23,000.
Following are UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s remarks at the General Assembly’s High-Level Forum on the Culture of Peace, in New York today:
Following are UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s remarks at an event commemorating the reinstallation of Candido Portinari’s War and Peace, at Headquarters, today:
Following are UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s remarks at the closing of the “My Planet from Space: Fragility and Beauty” exhibition, at Headquarters today:
