Libya was at a critical stage and the political agreement signed by several of its leaders last week had brought the country one step closer to ending its four-year conflict, the senior United Nations official there told the Security Council today, urging all parties to engage constructively in the dialogue process.
On 14 July 2015, the Secretary-General appointed Catherine Marchi-Uhel (France) to serve as Ombudsperson pursuant to Security Council resolution 1904 (2009), to assist the Security Council Committee pursuant to resolutions 1267 (1999) and 1989 (2011) concerning Al-Qaida and associated individuals and entities in its consideration of requests for removal from the Committee’s Sanctions List.
Following is the text of UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s video message on the launch of Arirang TV on the United Nations In-House Network, in New York on 14 July:
Following are UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s remarks at Empress Zewditu Memorial Hospital to launch the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) Millennium Development Goal 6 report, in Addis Ababa today:
The following statement was issued today by UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon:
Following are UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s remarks at the UN-Women-World Bank event on financing for gender equality, in Addis Ababa on 14 July:
The Secretary-General welcomed the historic agreement reached in Vienna today between the P5+1 and Iran on Iran’s nuclear programme. He believes the accord is a testament to the value of dialogue and will lead to greater mutual understanding and cooperation on the many serious security challenges in the Middle East.
The fulfilment of the mandate of the United Nations Organization Stabilization Mission in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (MONUSCO) rested on “persistent engagement” with the Government on the security situation in the East, the electoral process and the ongoing strategic dialogue, the Security Council heard today during its periodic briefing on the subject.
ADDIS ABABA, 14 July — Developing countries were committed to resolving their development challenges but required “space and autonomy” to mobilize domestic resources, senior officials attending the Third International Conference on Financing for Development said today, pressing partner countries to honour — or surpass — overdue assistance pledges and revitalize cooperation so they could catalyse genuine change in the post-2015 era.
The Security Council today extended until 15 December 2015 the mandate of the United Nations peacekeeping operation for the disputed Abyei area bordering Sudan and South Sudan.
