The following statement was issued today by the Spokesman for UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon:
With Burundi “back on the brink”, all political stakeholders in that country needed to put national well-being above narrow ambitions in order to preserve the hard-won gains towards building democratic institutions and a common community, the Security Council heard today from two top United Nations officials.
The High-level Political Forum for Sustainable Development closed its eight-day annual session today with the adoption of a declaration that committed ministers from around the world to establishing a “strong, universal, ambitious, inclusive and people-centred” post-2015 development agenda that completed the unfinished business of the Millennium Development Goals and responded to new challenges.
Ahead of South Sudan’s Independence Day tomorrow, the Secretary-General said he will never forget the hope he felt as the flag rose for the first time over the United Nations’ newest Member State. Those memories are all the more painful to recall today, he said, as that hope, four years later, is in short supply.
During a meeting held to commemorate the twentieth anniversary of the massacres in Srebrenica, the Security Council today failed to adopt a resolution that would have emphasized acceptance of those tragic events as genocide as a prerequisite for national reconciliation in Bosnia and Herzegovina.
The following statement was issued today by 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 for World Population Day, observed on 11 July:
Following are UN Deputy Secretary-General Jan Eliasson’s remarks to the Security Council meeting on the situation in Bosnia and Herzegovina, in New York today:
The following statement was issued today by the Spokesman for UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon:
