Following are UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s remarks at the launch of the 2015 Global Assessment Report on Disaster Risk Reduction: Making Development Sustainable: The Future of Disaster Risk Management, in New York, today:
The following statement was issued today by the Spokesman for UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon:
The Economic and Social Council today filled outstanding vacancies on the Organizational Committee of the Peacebuilding Commission and the Executive Board of the World Food Programme (WFP).
The Secretary-General’s Special Representative for Libya briefed the Security Council on a strategic assessment of the United Nations presence in that country, saying the overall situation was deteriorating rapidly and Libya’s leaders must act quickly and decisively to address the political crisis to prevent real and imminent risks from threatening national unity and territorial integrity.
Applauding the start of construction last month of a new facility for the International Residual Mechanism for Criminal Tribunals in the United Republic of Tanzania, Stephen Cutts, Assistant Secretary-General of the Office of Central Support Services, Department of Management, told the Fifth Committee (Administrative and Budgetary) “this is a momentous achievement in the project, and is the result of successfully meeting all planned milestones due to date”.
Libya could not allow the political crisis and armed conflict that had gripped the country for much of the past year to fester, the United Nations’ senior official there told the Security Council today, stressing that unless leaders acted “quickly and decisively”, the risks to national unity and territorial integrity were imminent.
The Security Council today, determining that the proliferation of nuclear, chemical and biological weapons and their delivery means remained a threat to international peace and security, agreed to extend for 13 months the mandate of the Panel of Experts that assists the Sanctions Committee on the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea.
Following are UN Deputy Secretary-General Jan Eliasson’s remarks, as delivered, at the opening of the forty-sixth session of the United Nations Statistical Commission, in New York today:
The Secretary-General’s Special Envoy on Ebola told a high-level international conference in Brussels that a gap of $900 million remained to fund the response over the next six months to get to zero cases, noting that “phase 2” of tackling the virus was the “hardest part and a bumpy road”.
In March, the French presidency of the Security Council would focus on a broad range of issues, from peace and security on the African continent to efforts to bring about a political solution to the crisis in Syria, the Permanent Representative of the country said this afternoon.
