Following are UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s remarks to the Security Council briefing on Yemen, in New York today:
Following the release two weeks ago of 249 children from an armed group in South Sudan, the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) and partners are overseeing the release of another 300 children. The children surrendered their weapons and will spend their first night in an interim care centre that has health and psychological services.
On 10 February 2015, the Security Council Committee pursuant to resolutions 1267 (1999) and 1989 (2011) approved the addition of the entry specified below to its Al-Qaida Sanctions List of individuals and entities subject to the assets freeze, travel ban and arms embargo set out in paragraph 1 of Security Council resolution 2161 (2014) adopted under Chapter VII of the Charter of the United Nations.
Following is UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s message, as delivered by Wilfried Lemke, Special Adviser on Sport for Development and Peace, to the EPICS (Eco, Peace, IT, Culture, Sports) Forum 2014, in Gwangju, Republic of Korea, today:
The following Security Council press statement was issued today by Council President Liu Jieyi (China):
The Secretary-General condemns, in the strongest terms, the killing on 6 February of Thierno Aliou Diaoune, National Coordinator for the UN Peacebuilding Fund in Conakry, Guinea. Mr. Diaoune was a trusted United Nations partner and a tireless advocate for the construction of peace, democracy and human rights in the country.
The following statement was issued today by the Spokesman for UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon:
Twenty years after the landmark “Copenhagen Summit”, speakers in the Commission for Social Development today called for transformative public policies that supported a rights-based vision of a world which uplifted living standards for society’s most neglected while recognizing the vast differences among countries’ abilities to bring about that worthy goal.
Following are UN Deputy Secretary-General Jan Eliasson’s concluding remarks at an open briefing organized by the Counter-Terrorism Committee, in New York today:
Following are UN Deputy Secretary-General Jan Eliasson's remarks, on behalf of Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, at the opening of the 2015 session of the Committee on the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People, in New York today:
