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:

Following is UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s message to the Fourth Global Think Tank Summit, delivered by Wu Hongbo, Under-Secretary-General for Economic and Social Affairs, in Beijing today:

The following statement was issued today by the Spokesperson for UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon:

The High-level Political Forum on Sustainable Development began its 2015 annual session today, with a focus on its role in reviewing the implementation of the post-2015 development agenda.

The official opening of “The Transformative Power of Art,” an exhibition organized by Sam Kahamba Kutesa, President of the sixty-ninth session of the United Nations General Assembly, will take place in the Visitors’ Lobby on Tuesday, 30 June, at 6 p.m.

Approving the appropriation of almost $8.3 billion for 15 peacekeeping operations and a related text that took action on recent allegations of sexual exploitation and abuse, the General Assembly today adopted 22 resolutions and one decision contained in reports from its Fifth Committee (Administrative and Budgetary).

The High Commissioner for Refugees warns that funding to meet the most basic survival needs of the 3.9 million refugees who have fled the conflict in Syria is “dangerously low”, causing cuts in food aid, declining school attendance, costly lifesaving health services and potentially unsafe births.

The following Security Council press statement was issued today by Council President Ramlan Bin Ibrahim (Malaysia):

The Special Committee on decolonization today approved a resolution calling for the peaceful settlement of the “Question of the Falkland Islands (Malvinas), as delegates urged an end to the “festering” dispute that had long plagued the South Atlantic islands and surrounding territories.