Stephen O’Brien, the United Nations Emergency Relief Coordinator, expressed deep concern over the catastrophic humanitarian situation in Yemen. He said millions of people are facing terrifying violence, extreme hunger and little medical aid, and renewed his call for an immediate and unconditional humanitarian pause.
NEW YORK, 15 July (Division for Ocean Affairs and the Law of the Sea) — The Commission on the Limits of the Continental Shelf will hold its thirty-eighth session from 20 July to 4 September.
ADDIS ABABA, 15 July – Ministers of countries that had made strides in the complex task of sustaining social cohesion and growing their economies, nevertheless urged the adoption at the Third International Conference on Financing for Development, in Ethiopia, of an effective framework for assistance that would help build the resilience of all States to the multiple crises the world currently faced.
The following statement was issued today by the Spokesman for UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon:
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:
