Although nuclear weapons had not been engaged since 1945, the world “cannot rely on luck indefinitely”, the First Committee (Disarmament and International Security) heard today as it continued its general debate.
With security in northern Mali worsening and peacekeepers increasingly targeted, it was urgent for ongoing peace talks to make progress without delay, the Under-Secretary-General for Peacekeeping Operations told the Security Council this morning.
The Fifth Committee (Administrative and Budgetary) today approved a consensus draft resolution that allowed four countries to retain their voting rights despite failing to pay their annual contribution to the Organization.
The following Security Council press statement was issued today by Council President María Cristina Perceval (Argentina):
The Secretary-General will go to Washington, D.C., tomorrow for meetings with the World Bank and its President on countering Ebola, improving sanitation in Haiti and supporting financing for development. Afterwards he will travel to Tunis to express support for Tunisia’s transition process, and then to Cairo for a donor conference on Gaza reconstruction.
Following is UN Secretary-General Ban Ki‑moon’s message for World Mental Health Day, to be observed on 10 October:
Decolonization had been one of the “most defining issues” of the latter part of the twentieth century and beyond owing to the United Nations’ “untiring” efforts, but with 17 Non-Self-Governing Territories still on the Organization’s list, the Fourth Committee (Special Political and Decolonization) today heard calls for completing the process through a common endeavour in the spirit of cooperation among all parties involved.
The following statement was issued today by the Spokesman for UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon:
Following is the text of UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s message as part of a video featuring various leaders marking the twenty-fifth anniversary of the International Paralympic Committee:
United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today announced the appointment of Simon Munzu of Cameroon as his Deputy Special Representative of the United Nations Operation in Côte d'Ivoire.
