Without positive efforts by Israeli and Palestinian leaders to move peace negotiations forward, tensions and violence in the region could only worsen, the top United Nations political official told the Security Council this afternoon.
United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon travelled on Monday, 22 June, from Luxembourg to Strasbourg, France. Upon arrival in the evening, he attended a dinner hosted by Thorbjørn Jagland, Secretary-General of the Council of Europe.
United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon flew on Sunday, 21 June, from New York to Luxembourg, to participate in a meeting of the Foreign Affairs Ministers of the European Union.
The Commission of Inquiry for Eritrea says that the situation there can no longer be ignored. The body’s reportdescribes a State that rules through fear and a vast security network that reaches into every level of society. It urges the Human Rights Council to scrutinize violations, which may be crimes against humanity.
Following are UN Deputy Secretary-General, Jan Eliasson’s remarks, as prepared for delivery, to the Annual Peacebuilding Fund Stakeholders Meeting, in New York today:
Concluding its second resumed session, the Fifth Committee (Administrative and Budgetary) today sent 22 draft resolutions and one decision to the General Assembly, asking the world body to authorize the allocation of $8.26 billion to finance 15 peacekeeping missions for the year beginning 1 July 2015 and to take action on a number of pressing issues, including responding to recent allegations of sexual exploitation and abuse.
New York, 22 June — Member States at the United Nations have agreed to develop a legally binding instrument to conserve and sustainably use marine biological diversity of areas beyond their national borders.
The Peacebuilding Commission today underscored the importance of predictable sustained funding and the effectiveness of domestic resource mobilization at its second-ever annual session.
United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, accompanied by Madam Ban Soon-taek, arrived in Geneva, Switzerland, on the afternoon of Sunday, 14 June.
As the P5+1 and Iran continued negotiations on a comprehensive agreement relating to that country’s nuclear programme, the measures imposed by the Security Council through resolutions 1737 (2006), 1747 (2007), 1803 (2008) and 1929 (2010) remained in full effect, the Chair of the Iran Sanctions Committee told the 15-member body today, underlining the obligation of States to implement them.
