Following is the text of UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s message on the International Day of Cooperatives, to be observed on 5 July:

The following Security Council press statement was issued today by Council President Eugène-Richard Gasana (Rwanda):

On 24 June 2014, Security Council bodies with responsibilities relating to Yemen and counter-terrorism held joint consultations with the Chargé d’affaires a.i. of the Permanent Mission of Yemen to the United Nations, Khaled Hussein Mohamed Alyemany, and the Special Adviser to the Secretary-General on Yemen, Jamal Benomar.

As the Economic and Social Council wrapped up the first week of its inaugural high-level political forum, speakers tackled questions and strategies of how, on local, national, regional and global platforms, to integrate sustainable development goals into the post-2015 agenda.

NAIROBI, 1 July — The United Nations Seminar on Assistance to the Palestinian People opened in Nairobi today, under the theme “Fostering Active International Solidarity with the Palestinians: Solidifying the Economic Underpinnings of an Independent State”.

NAIROBI, 1 July — The first plenary session of the United Nations Seminar on Assistance to the Palestinian People, taking place in Nairobi, Kenya, began with a presentation by Maria-Jose Torres-Macho, Deputy Head of the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs in the Occupied Palestinian Territory.

NAIROBI, 2 July — The United Nations Seminar on Assistance to the Palestinian People, held at the United Nations Headquarters in Nairobi from 1 to 2 July, focused today on the Palestinian National Development Plan 2014-2016, titled “Long-term strategies of the State of Palestine for Economic Development and Growth”.

Following are UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s remarks to the high-level segment of the Economic and Social Council and high-level political forum, in New York today:

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

NAIROBI, 2 July — Ahead of the closing today of the United Nations Seminar, participants considered mobilization of global assistance to the Palestinian people and its effective use for sustainable growth in the context of a new aid paradigm, hearing that foreign aid might not be the key to unlock development, as many had thought.