Participants thanked the Government of Italy for hosting the Ministerial Conference on International Support for the Lebanese Armed Forces under the auspices of United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon and the preparatory Senior Officials Meeting held in Rome on 10 April 2014.

United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today announced the appointment of Lieutenant-General Yohannes Gebremeskel Tesfamariam of Ethiopia as the Force Commander for the United Nations Mission in South Sudan (UNMISS).

Systematic and wide-spread crimes continued to be committed with total impunity in Darfur nearly 10 years since the situation there was referred to the International Criminal Court, Chief Prosecutor Fatou Bensouda told the Security Council today.

The Security Council today unanimously adopted two resolutions addressing threats to international peace and security, the first on the Al-Qaida Sanctions Committee and the second relating to the Taliban sanctions regime.

Following is UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s message, delivered by Chef de Cabinet Susanna Malcorra, for the panel discussion marking the Day of the African Child, in New York today:

The following Security Council press statement was issued today by Council President Vitaly I. Churkin (Russian Federation):

Following is UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s message to the United Nations-League of Arab States General Cooperation meeting, as delivered by Oscar Fernandez-Taranco, Assistant Secretary-General for Political Affairs, in Geneva today:

Following is UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s message, delivered by Nickolay Mladenov, his Special Representative and Head of the United Nations Assistance Mission for Iraq, to the forty-first session of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation Council of Foreign Ministers in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, today:

Following are UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s remarks to the International Labour Organization at an event regarding youth employment, in Geneva today:

Following is UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s message to the fifth International Meeting of High-Level Representatives on Security Issues, in Kazan, Russian Federation, today: