Following are UN Deputy Secretary-General Jan Eliasson’s remarks at the 2014 Willy Brandt Lecture, held at Humboldt University in Berlin today:
Concluding its work for the session, the Fourth Committee (Special Political and Decolonization) today approved 12 draft resolutions and three draft decisions, on special political missions, information, Middle East and organization of work, bringing to 28 the total number of draft texts it forwarded to the General Assembly for adoption.
The Third Committee (Social, Humanitarian and Cultural) approved three draft resolutions today, among them, a new text designating 15 July as a World Youth Skills Day.
The General Assembly would demand that Israel cease exploiting, damaging, depleting and endangering the natural resources in the Occupied Palestinian Territory and the occupied Syrian Golan, according to the terms of one of seven draft resolutions approved today by the Second Committee (Economic and Financial).
The global fight against the Ebola virus so far had aborted a worst-case scenario of runaway increases in infections, but the disease was far from contained, delegates in the General Assembly heard today during an information briefing on the crisis.
Hostilities in eastern Ukraine had reignited, and for the past several days, artillery fire was exchanged between the Government and separatists amid reports from the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe of large convoys of heavy weapons and troops flowing into rebel-held areas, the Security Council heard today in step with the fast-breaking developments.
The Secretary‑General commended the joint announcement by China and the United States of their post-2020 action on climate change as an important contribution to the new climate agreement to be reached next year in Paris, and urged other countries to follow suit.
The membership of the Multistakeholder Advisory Group of the Internet Governance Forum has been renewed.
Following is UN Secretary‑General Ban Ki‑moon’s message for the International Day for Tolerance, to be observed on 16 November:
Following are UN Secretary‑General Ban Ki‑moon’s remarks at the sixth Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN)-United Nations Summit, in Nay Pyi Taw, Myanmar, today:
