Following are UN Secretary-General’s remarks on mobilizing long-term climate financing for developing countries, in Durban, South Africa, 7 December:

Following is the text of UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s video message, aired on 7 December, for the sixtieth anniversary of the 1951 Convention Relating to the Status of Refugees and the fiftieth anniversary of the 1961 Convention on the Reduction of Statelessness, held in Geneva, 6-7 December:

The withdrawal of United States forces in Iraq by the end of the year would be an important milestone that entailed many challenges even as it provided all Iraqis the opportunity to prove to themselves that they could build a peaceful and better future and gave the country’s political and elected officials the chance to consolidate democratic and economic gains, the Head of the United Nations Assistance Mission for Iraq (UNAMI) told the Security Council this morning.

Following is UN Secretary-General’s message, as delivered by B. Lynn Pascoe, Under-Secretary-General for Political Affairs, to the Ministerial Council of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE), in Vilnius, Lithuania, 7 December:

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

Following are UN Secretary-General’s remarks, as prepared for delivery, to the seventeenth Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change high-level ministerial dinner, in Durban, South Africa, 7 December:

On 6 December 2011, the Security Council Committee established pursuant to resolution 1518 (2003) approved the deletion (de-listing) of one entry specified below from the list of individuals established pursuant to Security Council resolution 1483 (2003). The sanctions measures set out in paragraph 23 of Security Council resolution 1483 (2003) therefore no longer apply to the following individual:

Irrespective of the current global financial crisis, it was “time to get back to basics”, the General Assembly heard today, as delegations reaffirmed the mutual responsibilities and obligations of their Governments to fulfil commitments on development financing agreed at the dawn of the new century, and discussed new ways of raising more funds to rescue millions of people from poverty.

With Palestinian refugees gaining none of the political and human rights advances seen elsewhere in the Middle East, and the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) facing severe financial constraints, 18donors pledged contributions to the Agency’s 2012 budgetthis afternoon, with several Governments expressing their intention to announce their pledges at a later date.

Despite extreme poverty, rampant unemployment and isolated violent incidents, Burundi’s overall political and security landscapes were “calm” with much anticipated for the Government’s long-term vision, the top United Nations official in that country told the Security Council today.