The Fifth Committee (Administrative and Budgetary) opened the first part of its resumed sixty-eighth session today with a review of its 2014 work programme and organization of work, and of the role of the Joint Inspection Unit in light of its importance in the “United Nations oversight landscape”.

Following is UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s statement on the occasion of the fiftieth anniversary of the establishment of the United Nations Peacekeeping Force in Cyprus, to be observed on 4 March:

The Assistant Secretary-General for Political Affairs provided an update to the Security Council on the situation in Ukraine today, as the 15-member body held its second meeting on the subject in three days.

The following statement was issued today by the Spokesperson for UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon:

Following is UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s message, as delivered by José Graziano da Silva, Director-General of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, to the Global Forum and Expo for Family Farming, in Budapest today:

Determining that the proliferation of nuclear, chemical and biological weapons and their means of delivery continued to constitute a threat to international peace and security, the Security Council today unanimously adopted a resolution extending for 13 months the mandate of the Panel of Experts that assists the Sanctions Committee on the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea.

The Security Council today authorized a partial lifting of its arms embargo on Somalia until 25 October.

Following is UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s message to the Workshop on the Ratification and Implementation of the Kampala Amendments to the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court, in Auckland, New Zealand, today:

Following are UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s remarks at the closing ceremony of the United Nations Integrated Peacebuilding Office in Sierra Leone, as delivered in Freetown today:

Following is an unofficial transcript of UN Deputy Secretary-General Jan Eliasson’s telephone press briefing on Ukraine, from Kyiv, today: