United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today announced the appointment of Robert Piper of Australia as Deputy Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process, at the level of Assistant Secretary-General.
Following are UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s remarks at a high-level retreat with heads of regional and other organizations, at Greentree in New York today:
Following are UN Deputy Secretary-General Jan Eliasson’s remarks at the opening of the Eleventh Session of the United Nations Forum on Forests, in New York today:
The Fifth Committee (Administrative and Budgetary) today opened the second part of its resumed sixty-ninth session dedicated to the United Nations’ peacekeeping operations, whose budget for 2015/16 would reach $8.5 billion.
Following is the joint message from UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, Irina Bokova, Director-General of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), and Zeid Ra’ad al Hussein, United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, for World Press Freedom Day, observed today:
Fervent calls by survivors and activists for genuine and sustained efforts towards the abolition of nuclear weapons dominated the 2015 Review Conference of the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT) today, as non-governmental organizations addressed delegates at Headquarters.
The Secretary-General calls on all parties in Yemen to ensure that humanitarian agencies and their partners have safe and reliable access to bring aid workers and supplies into the country and to deliver aid to millions of people in need.
During its informal consultations on 28 April 2015, the Security Council Committee established pursuant to resolution 2206 (2015) concerning South Sudan (the Committee) was briefed by representatives of the International Criminal Police Organization (INTERPOL) and the United Nations Mine Action Service (UNMAS).
The Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues concluded its fourteenth session today, sending nine draft reports to the Economic and Social Council containing proposals, recommendations and three draft decisions, including a call for the General Assembly to consider establishing a procedure to guarantee indigenous peoples’ participation in its seventieth session.
The top Palestinian diplomat at the United Nations this afternoon called on the Organization to include Israel’s army among the parties that committed grave violations against children during armed conflict, and to hold it accountable for attacks last year on United Nations-run schools sheltering civilians in Gaza.
