United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today announced the appointment of Bintou Keita of Guinea as Ebola Crisis Manager for Sierra Leone for the United Nations Mission for Ebola Emergency Response (UNMEER).  In her role as Ebola Crisis Manager Ms. Keita will work with the host Government and key stakeholders to ensure rapid and effective international emergency response to Ebola continues in Sierra Leone.

United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today announced the appointment of Nickolay Mladenov of Bulgaria as his Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process and his Personal Representative to the Palestine Liberation Organization and the Palestinian Authority.  In this capacity, Mr. Mladenov will be the Envoy of the Secretary-General to the Quartet.

Following are UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s remarks on the commemoration of the twentieth anniversary of the World Summit for Social Development, in New York today:

The following statement was issued today by the Spokesman for UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon:

The Committee on Non-Governmental Organizations today deferred action on the application of two organizations for special consultative status with the Economic and Social Council, as it held a question and answer session with those entities.

Following are UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s remarks at lunch with the Executive Committee of the United Nations Correspondents Associations (UNCA), in New York today:

Building on the dynamic momentum leading up to the adoption of new post-2015 goals, delegates debated ways to fine-tune a transformative people-centred approach to sustainable development that would leave no one behind, as the Commission on Social Development opened the second meeting of its fifty-third session today.

Following are Deputy Secretary-General Jan Eliasson’s speech titled “A World in Turmoil and Transition:  Common Challenges and Joint Solutions”, as delivered at an international public dialogue event held at the Allianz Forum, in Berlin today:

The Special Representative for Somalia, Nicholas Kay, presented the Secretary-General’s latest report on that country to the Security Council today, saying that 2015 should be a year of federalism and delivery, thus determining whether and how Somalia could become a unified, peaceful federal State.

The following Security Council press statement was issued today by Council President Liu Jieyi (China):