Following is UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s message on the Ebola epidemic to the Summit of Heads of State of the Bolivarian Alliance for the Peoples of Our Americas (ALBA), delivered by David Nabarro, the Special Envoy on Ebola, in Havana today:
Following are UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s remarks at the Economic and Social Council special event entitled “CERN [European Organization for Nuclear Research]: Sixty Years of Science for Peace and Development” in New York today:
As the Second Committee (Economic and Financial) met to consider poverty eradication today, the representative of Benin, on behalf of the Group of Least Developed Countries, told delegates that the United Nations should make it its “utmost priority” to help such countries to “bridge the capacity gap” in the face of the extreme challenges they faced.
Following is the text of UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s video message to the Plenipotentiary Conference of the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) in Busan, Republic of Korea, today:
The following statement was issued today by the Spokesman for UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon:
Marking the 150th anniversary of the Geneva Conventions, speakers in today’s Sixth Committee (Legal) debate urged Member States to ratify the Additional Protocols to the Geneva Conventions of 1949 and relating to the protection of victims of armed conflicts, with the aim of strengthening international humanitarian law.
The Fifth Committee (Administrative and Budgetary) today approved the United Nations priorities for biennium 2016-2017 and began its examination of conference services, including the late issuance of documents and the status of equal treatment of the six official languages.
With the Millennium Development Goals failing aboriginal peoples of the world, their knowledge and traditional practices must help to guide the post-2015 development agenda towards mapping a more inclusive, sustainable future, the Third Committee (Social, Humanitarian and Cultural) heard today, as it began its general discussion on their rights, a month after the historic first World Conference on Indigenous Peoples.
Unrealistic calls for disarmament distracted from — and ignored — more achievable and sober efforts, a speaker told the First Committee (Disarmament and International Security) today, urging members to acknowledge the “hard truth” that the final goal would not be realized overnight or in a single negotiation.
Sports could be a diplomatic bridge to peace and a vehicle for healing political and cultural rifts among communities, speakers told the General Assembly today as it reviewed progress in implementing its 2012 resolution on the potential of sport to be used as an educational and development tool.
