On 26 September 2014, the Security Council Committee established pursuant to resolution 1970 (2011) concerning Libya updated the entries specified below to its List of Individuals and Entities subject to the travel ban and asset freeze.
Speakers painted a harrowing picture of deprivation and distress on the ground and also offered glimmers of hope today as the Fourth Committee (Special Political and Decolonization) heard from a broad range of representatives and petitioners on behalf of Non-Self-Governing Territories.
United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today announced the appointments of Marcel Rudasingwa of Rwanda as Ebola Crisis Manager for Guinea, Peter Jan Graaff of the Netherlands as Ebola Crisis Manager for Liberia and Amadu Kamara of the United States as Ebola Crisis Manager for Sierra Leone.
The Under-Secretary-General for Peacekeeping Operations, briefing the Security Council on Mali today via videolink, expressed concern at the rate of attacks in the last months against the United Nations Mission there. The recent number of victims in the Mission was one of the highest seen in peacekeeping operations.
On 5 September 2014, United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki‑moon designated Wu Hongbo, Under-Secretary-General for Economic and Social Affairs, as the Secretary-General for the third International Conference on Financing for Development.
Following is UN Secretary-General Ban Ki‑moon’s message on the International Day of the Girl Child, to be observed 11 October:
The following statement was issued today by the Spokesman for UN Secretary-General Ban Ki‑moon:
In order to fully defeat terrorism, the international community must confront emerging threats posed by foreign fighters and evolving trends in communication technologies, speakers told the Sixth Committee (Legal) today as deliberations on measures to eliminate international terrorism continued.
The biggest problem facing young people around the world — in developing and developed countries — was unemployment and underemployment, youth representatives told the Third Committee (Social, Humanitarian and Cultural) as it concluded its general discussion on social development, with lively contributions from a number of delegates, many of whom had grown up alongside the Millennium Development Goals.
As the Second Committee (Economic and Financial) continued its general debate today, delegates discussed a number of development issues, including the need to tackle external debt.
