Following is UN Secretary‑General Ban Ki‑moon’s address, as prepared for delivery, to the Harvard Foundation for Intercultural and Race Relations, Cambridge, Massachusetts, today:
Twenty six donors today announced contributions, or their intention to contribute, to the 2015 budget of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA), as officials estimated that the chronically underfunded Agency would begin the year facing a $35 million deficit.
In a meeting held today to observe the twentieth anniversary of the International Year of the Family, representatives of the General Assembly said the role of the family was essential in promoting social stability and economic development and that families should be afforded the same rights, importance, and dignity as individuals.
Terrorism and cross-border crime in Africa would be a major focus at the Security Council in December as the body continued to closely watch a range of crises worldwide, the Permanent Representative of Chad, whose delegation holds the Council presidency for the month, said this afternoon.
On 9 May 2014, the Security Council Committee established pursuant to resolution 2127 (2013) concerning the Central African Republic added three individuals to the List of Individuals and Entities Subject to the Measures Imposed by paragraphs 30 and 32 of resolution 2134 (2014).
The following statement was issued today by the Spokesman for UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon:
A new report issued today by the World Bank Group shows that the Ebola epidemic continues to cripple the economies of the three most affected countries — Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone. According to the report, after growing rapidly for years and into the first half of 2014, they will post negative or contracted growth next year and lost income totalling more than $2 billion in 2014-15.
United Nations Secretary‑General Ban Ki‑moon today announced the appointment of Lise Grande of the United States as his Deputy Special Representative of the United Nations Assistance Mission for Iraq (UNAMI).
Following is UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s message to the meeting of significant faith leaders against modern slavery and human trafficking, held in the Vatican City today:
Following is UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s message to the World Family Summit +10, as delivered by Babatunde Osotimehin, Executive Director of United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA), held in Zhuhai, China from 2 to 4 December:
