On 6 August 2015, the Security Council Committee pursuant to resolutions 1267 (1999) and 1989 (2011) approved the addition of the entry 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 3 August 2015, the Security Council Committee established pursuant to resolution 2127 (2013) concerning the Central African Republic (CAR) held a meeting to discuss the exemptions provisions of the arms embargo established by resolution 2127 (2013) and renewed by resolution 2196 (2015) with Marie-Noëlle Koyara, Minister of State in charge of National Defence and other representatives of the Government of the Central African Republic (via video teleconference in Bangui), Babacar Gaye, Special Representative of the Secretary-General for the Central African Republic and Head of United Nations Multidimensional Integrated Stabilization Mission in the Central African Republic (MINUSCA), and the Panel of Experts.

Following is UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s message for the International Day of the World’s Indigenous Peoples, observed on 9 August:

The United Nations Support Mission for Libya (UNSMIL) has announced that the UN-facilitated dialogue will resume on 10 August.  The Secretary-General’s Special Representative has urged the main parties to redouble their efforts to find a peaceful resolution to the political and military conflict in Libya.

Following is UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s message to the Peace Memorial Ceremony, as delivered by Kim Won-soo, Acting High Representative for Disarmament Affairs, in Hiroshima, Japan, on 6 August:

Following is UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s message, as delivered by Kim Won-soo, Acting High Representative for Disarmament Affairs, for the meeting of Nihon Hidankyo (Japan Confederation of A- and H-Bomb Sufferers Organizations), in Hiroshima today:

Following is UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s message, as delivered by Kim Won-soo, Acting High Representative for Disarmament Affairs, for the 2015 International Children’s Peace Forum, in Nagasaki City today:

The Head of the United Nations Mission in the Central African Republic told the Security Council that while the security situation remained fragile, improvements had been made and progress was seen in the political process with the Bangui Forum.  On the humanitarian front, 2.7 million people still required assistance.

United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon travelled to Washington, D.C., on Tuesday morning, 4 August, to meet with United States President Barack Obama.

The United Nations Regional Centre for Peace and Disarmament in Asia and the Pacific commenced a project on strengthening the national capacity of Maldives to implement the United Nations Programme of Action on the Illicit Trade in Small Arms and Light Weapons and the Arms Trade Treaty.