United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, accompanied by Madam Ban Soon-taek, arrived in Turkmenistan, the last leg of his five-country visit to Central Asia, shortly after midnight on Saturday, 13 June.
United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, together with Madam Ban Soon-taek, arrived in Uzbekistan in the evening on Thursday, 11 June.
United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, accompanied by Madam Ban Soon-taek, arrived late in the evening on Wednesday, 10 June, in Kyrgyzstan, the third stop in his five-country visit to Central Asia.
United nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, accompanied by Madam Ban Soon-taek, arrived in Astana, Kazakhstan, shortly before midnight on Tuesday, 9 June, from Tajikistan. Kazakhstan was the second stop of his visit to the Central Asian nations.
Early in the morning on Tuesday, 9 June, United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, accompanied by Madam Ban Soon-taek, arrived in Dushanbe, Tajikistan, the first stop on his visit to five Central Asian countries.
United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, accompanied by Madam Ban Soon-taek, arrived in Germany on Sunday morning, 7 June.
The Committee on the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People will convene the United Nations International Meeting in Support of Israeli-Palestinian Peace in Moscow, at the Lotte Hotel, on 1 and 2 July.
Following is UN Deputy Secretary-General Jan Eliasson’s remarks, as prepared for delivery, to the Counter-Terrorism Committee open briefing concerning “New Initiatives to Address the Foreign Terrorist Fighters Challenge”, in New York today:
Ismail Ould Cheikh Ahmed, the Secretary-General’s Special Envoy for Yemen, said that he has seen several positive signs in his separate talks with the Yemeni parties in Geneva in recent days, and believes a ceasefire and withdrawal of forces can be reached following further consultations.
Addressing a range of items on its agenda, the General Assembly today adopted five resolutions and one decision, including texts on the Law of Sea, on the establishment of the International Day for the Elimination of Sexual Violence in Conflict and on achieving peace in Africa by 2020.
