Following is the text of UN Secretary-General Ban Ki‑moon’s video message to the Global Forum on Youth Policies, in Baku, Azerbaijan on 28 October:
Global peace and security depended in large measure on stability at the regional and subregional levels, making that relationship an inseparable one, the First Committee (Disarmament and International Security) heard today as delegations delivered statements on regional disarmament, weapons of mass destruction and the disarmament aspects of outer space.
Globalization generated unbalanced outcomes, both among and within countries, the representative of Malawi told delegates in the Second Committee (Economic and Financial) today.
The International Civil Service Commission’s ongoing efforts to shape a more modern, flexible compensation package for thousands of workers in the United Nations common system while bringing escalating salary costs under control was discussed at today’s meeting of the Fifth Committee (Administrative and Budgetary).
As the Sixth Committee (Legal) commenced its annual consideration of the International Law Commission report, the Commission’s Chair detailed two new sets of draft articles on the “expulsion of aliens” and the “protection of persons in the event of disasters”.
Private education choices must help, not hinder, the public system and the achievement of inalienable rights for all, the Third Committee (Social, Humanitarian and Cultural) heard today as it continued discussions on the protection and promotion of human rights, hearing from eight United Nations experts and delegates participating in interactive debates on a range of issues, from the right to adequate housing to physical and mental health.
Following is UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s message on the occasion of the first International Day to End Impunity for Crimes against Journalists, to be observed 2 November:
The Secretary-General has expressed concern over the recent restrictions put in place in several countries and localities applying to people who have travelled to the main Ebola-affected countries.
In light of continued massacres committed by armed groups in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo, the Secretary-General's Special Representative for the country this morning requested the Security Council to endorse and promote a more proactive stance by peacekeepers for protection of civilians.
The following statement was issued today by the Spokesman for UN Secretary-General Ban Ki‑moon:
