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

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

Following is UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s message, as delivered by Amina Mohammed, Special Adviser of the Secretary-General on Post-2015 Development Planning, at the launch of Presidents United to Solve Hunger, in New York today:

Following is UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s message to the thirty-fifth session of the Supreme Council of the Gulf Cooperation Council, as delivered by Nikolay Mladenov, Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Iraq and Head of the United Nations Assistance Mission for Iraq, in Doha today:

When the Security Council established the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda 20 years ago, on the heels of the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia the previous year, the landscape of international criminal law was altered forever, members heard today as they reviewed developments.

As the Fifth Committee (Administrative and Budgetary) today scrutinized how exchange rate fluctuations and inflation had impacted the United Nations expenditures, developed nations pushed for reform of “recosting”, the method of factoring in those elements to subsequently revise an initial budget, while developing countries rejected any changes.

Following are UN Deputy Secretary-General Jan Eliasson’s remarks at the Human Rights Day event at the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, held in New York today:

Delving into issues ranging from deep sea mining and continental shelf limits to pollution, piracy and plastic waste floating at the surface, the General Assembly today adopted, without a vote, a resolution on sustainable fisheries and deferred taking action on a draft text on oceans and the Law of the Sea, as more than 30 speakers and the heads of two of the world’s ocean and sea authorities weighed in on the instruments governing those domains.

United Nations Secretary‑General Ban Ki‑moon, accompanied by Madam Ban Soon‑taek, travelled to Cambridge, Massachusetts, on Tuesday, 2 December, to receive the 2014 Humanitarian of the Year award.

The World Food Programme, after suspending food aid to nearly 1.7 million Syrian refugees in neighbouring countries on 1 December, announced today that it is reinstating assistance thanks to $1.8 million in support from the public, the private sector and donor countries.  By mid-December, Syrian refugees in Lebanon, Turkey, Jordan, Iraq and Egypt will have their electronic food vouchers uploaded with $30 for each family member, on average, to buy food from local shops.