Addressing the Security Council, the Secretary-General said that both Israelis and Palestinians must demonstrate the commitment and courage necessary to chart a viable course towards a better future, by choosing peace over death and ending the suffering that has defined the conflict for far too long.
The world was in for a period of moderate and uneven economic growth, delegations heard as the Economic and Social Council concluded its meeting on the theme “coherence, coordination and cooperation in the context of financing for development and the post-2015 agenda” while considering its role in that process.
The following Security Council press statement was issued today by Council President Dina Kawar (Jordan):
Following is UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s briefing to the Security Council meeting on the situation in the Middle East, today, in New York:
Following is UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s message, as delivered by Virginia Gamba, Deputy to the High Representative for Disarmament Affairs, to the event organized by the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) on the occasion of the 100th anniversary of the first use of chemical weapons, in Ypres, Belgium, today:
Following are UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s remarks at the opening of the high-level thematic debate on “Promoting tolerance and reconciliation: fostering peaceful, inclusive societies and countering violent extremism”, today in New York:
The international community must do more to promote difficult compromises on the part of Israeli and Palestinian leaders in order to salvage the two-State solution to the Middle East conflict, United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon told the Security Council this morning.
With the global economy hampered by major geopolitical tensions and other unexpected shocks, the world must reorient finance patterns and better coordinate public and private investments to achieve the post-2015 development agenda, the Economic and Social Council heard today, as it began a two-day special high-level meeting with the Bretton Woods institutions, the World Trade Organization and the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development.
To be truly transformative, the post-2015 development framework must include the rights of indigenous peoples, the Deputy Secretary-General said today, stressing to participants at the fourteenth session of the Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues, that it was time for them to be at the forefront of an agenda that left no one behind.
The following statement was issued today by the Spokesman for UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon:
