On 10 August 2009, the Security Council Al-Qaida and Taliban Sanctions Committee approved the deletion of the entry specified below from its Consolidated List. The assets freeze, travel ban and arms embargo set out in paragraph 1 of Security Council resolution 1822 (2008) adopted under Chapter VII of the Charter of the United Nations accordingly no longer apply to this entry.

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

Following is the text of a joint statement on the establishment of an Independent Counsellor at the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia:

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

The following Security Council press statement on Myanmar was read out today by Council President John Sawers (United Kingdom):

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

Shuaib Chalklen of South Africa has been appointed the Special Rapporteur on Disability of the Commission for Social Development for the period 2009-2011.

United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon is pleased to announce the appointment of Maria Dotsenko, a national of Ukraine, as Representative of the Department of Public Information in the United Nations Office in Yerevan, Armenia.

During its sixty-third session, the General Assembly declared 19 August each year as World Humanitarian Day, to increase public awareness about humanitarian assistance activities worldwide and to honour all United Nations and other humanitarian workers, including those who have lost their lives in the cause of duty.

The following statement was issued on 13 August by the Spokesperson for UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon: