Sixty-three years after the General Assembly’s historic adoption in 1947 of resolution 181 (II), partitioning Palestine into two States – one Arab and one Jewish - the independence of the Palestinian Arab State continued to be unjustly obstructed and the rights of Palestinians “flagrantly denied”, the Permanent Observer of Palestine told the world body, as it considered that “painful and persistent” issue in the broader context of Middle East peace.

Following are UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s remarks, as prepared for delivery, on receiving the appeal of Women of Central Asia on Women, Peace and Security, in Astana today, 30 November:

The Inter Institutional Training Course on Combating Illicit Firearms Trafficking (IITC) of the United Nations Regional Centre for Peace, Disarmament and Development in Latin America and the Caribbean (UN-LiREC) has won recognition for “Best Practice” in the category of Regional Arms Control Initiatives.

The General Assembly would stress the importance of responsible borrowing and lending, while urging all lenders and borrowers to integrate debt sustainability analyses into their decisions in order to help maintain sustainable debt levels through a coordinated and cooperative approach, according to one of seven draft resolutions that the Second Committee (Economic and Financial) approved by consensus today.

Following is UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s message on the International Volunteer Day for Economic and Social Development, to be observed on 5 December:

Following are UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s remarks to the Summit of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE), in Astana, Kazakhstan, on 1 December:

Following are UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s remarks, delivered by Deputy Secretary-General Asha-Rose Migiro, to the Counter-Terrorism Committee Practitioners’ Seminar on Bringing Terrorists to Justice, in New York, today, 1 December:

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

The United Nations Global Pulse project brings together more than 100 technology and data experts this week in a workshop to design the architecture of a software platform that will help monitor the social and economic impact of global crises in real time.

On 30 November 2010, the Committee approved the changes specified with strike-through and underline in the entries below to its Consolidated List of individuals and entities subject to the assets freeze, travel ban and arms embargo set out in paragraph 1 of Security Council resolution 1904 (2009) adopted under Chapter VII of the Charter of the United Nations.