Following is the text of UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s video message to the Genesis Award ceremony, in Jerusalem today:
The following statement was issued today by the Spokesman for UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon:
Following are UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s remarks to the Security Council open debate on children and armed conflict, in New York today:
Following are UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s remarks at the Alliance of Civilizations Summer School, in New York on 17 June:
The following Security Council press statement was issued today by Council President Ramlan Bin Ibrahim (Malaysia):
Challenges in protecting civilians, asymmetric threats faced by mission personnel and caveats imposed by troop-contributing countries figured prominently in the Security Council today, as that body heard from the top United Nations peacekeeping official and force commanders on the operational hurdles related to the implementation of peacekeeping mandates.
Ending a visit to Syria, Special Envoy Staffan de Mistura called for a strong condemnation of the heavy bombings by Government forces last night on Douma. No context justifies the indiscriminate targeting of civilians or collective punishment by a Government. He urged greater aid access to besieged areas.
NEW YORK, 17 June (Office for Disarmament Affairs) — A workshop on capacity-building for the Programme of Action on the Illicit Trade in Small Arms and Light Weapons and the Arms Trade Treaty jointly organized by the Government of Bangladesh and the United Nations Regional Centre for Peace and Disarmament in Asia and the Pacific is taking place in Dhaka, Bangladesh, on 17 and 18 June.
Following are UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s remarks, as prepared for delivery, at the International Insurance Society Global Forum, in New York today:
Exploiting the opportunities for further engagement among the committees established to counter terrorism, address the Al-Qaida threat and halt proliferation of mass destruction weapons would lead to a “multiplier effect” in the delivery of results, those bodies’ Chairs told the Security Council today.
