United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon arrived in Riyadh from New York on Saturday evening, 7 February. Soon after his arrival, the Secretary-General and his delegation attended a dinner with United Nations staff working in Saudi Arabia.
The Secretary-General, speaking at the Summit on Countering Violent Extremism hosted by the United States Government in Washington, D.C., today, noted that addressing the profound challenge of violent extremism in a manner that solved rather than multiplied the problem could be the greatest test faced in the twenty-first century.
Following is UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s message for the World Day of Social Justice, to be observed on 20 February:
Following is UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s message, as delivered by Jens Toyberg-Frandzen, Interim Assistant Secretary-General for Political Affairs, to the opening of the 2015 session of the Special Committee on Decolonization, in New York today:
Following are UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s remarks at a summit on violent extremism, in Washington, D.C., today:
Citing growing cooperation among all stakeholders concerned to eradicate colonialism across the globe, a senior United Nations political official this morning called for innovative, practical ways to address the issue of self-government, as the Special Committee on Decolonization opened its 2015 session.
The Special Committee on the Charter of the United Nations and on the Strengthening of the Role of the Organization today elected by acclamation Nadia Kalb (Austria) of the Western European and Other States Group for third Vice-Chair of that body’s bureau.
Continuing its 2015 session today, the Special Committee on Peacekeeping Operations tackled a plethora of peacekeeping concerns from the use of new technology and civilian protection mandates to pre-deployment planning and training to troop reimbursement rates.
Welcoming the significant progress made by Burundi since the adoption of the Arusha Agreement in 2000 in restoring security and stability, the Security Council today noted that challenges remained to be overcome to prevent a reversal of such improvement, especially in the context of the 2015 elections.
“Horrific and brutal” acts of terrorism in Libya had “shaken our collective conscience” and must prompt swift action in support of the political process there, said the United Nations top official in that country as he briefed the Security Council this afternoon.
