The Secretary-General’s synthesis report would launch negotiations on the post-2015 development agenda, delegates in the Second Committee (Economics and Finance) heard today as it began its discussion of sustainable development.
Equitable access to and effective harnessing of space knowledge and technology were critical to the success of the post-2015 sustainable development agenda, the Fourth Committee (Special Political and Decolonization) heard today, as it began its consideration of international cooperation in the peaceful uses of outer space.
The development of new technologies of warfare, including autonomous weapons or ”killer robots” and cyberwarfare, raised fundamental concerns about the acceptability of allowing machines to independently take life-and-death decisions, the First Committee (Disarmament and International Security) heard today.
In the Security Council today, officials of the United Nations and affected countries alike continued to sound the alarm on the devastating effects of the Ebola epidemic, pleading for international action that matched the magnitude of the scourge and expressing gratitude for the international aid that had already been delivered or pledged.
The Head of the United Nations Mission in Liberia (UNMIL) today announced the death from Ebola of a United Nations Volunteer who worked in the UNMIL Medical team.  The Head of the United Nations Mission for Ebola Emergency Response (UNMEER) said this sad loss underscores the importance of an urgent and immediate response by the international community.
The youth of the United States were driving a change across the country that could, in the long term, alter its foreign policy on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, said Noam Chomsky, international public intellectual and Professor Emeritus of Linguistics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, today during a lecture to the United Nations Committee on the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People.
Despite persistent challenges, Somalia was going through "unprecedented change and optimism" which must be turned into stable progress through unified efforts by all stakeholders, the Secretary-General's Special Representative for that country told the Security Council this morning.
Reaffirming that Haiti was at an “important juncture” in the consolidation of stability and democracy, the Security Council today extended the mandate of the United Nations Stabilization Mission in Haiti (MINUSTAH) until 15 October 2015.
While reiterating demands for progress between the parties on outstanding issues, the Security Council this morning extended the mandate of the United Nations Interim Security Force for the disputed Abyei area bordering Sudan and South Sudan until 28 February 2015.
The General Assembly should continue considering sustainable urbanization in the post-2015 agenda and promote it as a transformational force for achieving and advancing sustainable national development, the Second Committee (Economic and Financial) heard today as delegates met to consider the implementation of the outcome of the United Nations Conference on Human Settlements (Habitat II) and strengthening of the United Nations Human Settlements Programme (UN-Habitat).
