The Independent Audit Advisory Committee (IAAC) of the United Nations held its thirty-fifth session from 25 to 27 July at the United Nations Headquarters in New York. The session was presided over by the Chair, J. Christopher Mihm. All the other members of the IAAC, namely Maria Gracia M. Pulido Tan (Vice-Chair), Patricia X. Arriagada Villouta, Natalia A. Bocharova and Richard Quartei Quartey, were in attendance.
The Board of Auditors approved 11 audit reports during its seventieth regular session at United Nations Headquarters in New York on 26 July 2016.
Following is the text of UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s video message to the United Nations System Staff College workshop on promoting a culture of change in the United Nations system, held in Turin, Italy, 27-28 June:
Following is UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s message, delivered by Sahle-Work Zewde, Director-General of the United Nations Office at Nairobi, on the occasion of the valedictory ceremony for judges of the United Nations Dispute Tribunal, in Nairobi today:
The Independent Audit Advisory Committee of the United Nations (IAAC) held its thirty-fourth session from 4 to 6 May at United Nations Headquarters in New York.
Following are UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s remarks, as prepared for delivery, at the signing ceremony for compacts with senior managers, in New York today:
The Independent Audit Advisory Committee of the United Nations (IAAC) held its thirty-third session from 17 to 19 February at the United Nations Headquarters in New York. The session was presided over by the Chair, J. Christopher Mihm. All the other members of the IAAC, namely Maria Gracia M. Pulido Tan (Vice-Chair), Patricia X. Arriagada Villouta, Natalia A. Bocharova and Richard Quartei Quartey, were in attendance.
Following are UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s remarks as prepared for delivery at the seventieth anniversary commemoration of the establishment of the Advisory Committee on Administrative and Budgetary Questions (ACABQ) in New York today:
United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today announced the appointment of Movses Abelian, born in Armenia and a national of Georgia, as Assistant Secretary-General of the Department of General Assembly and Conference Management. He will succeed Catherine Pollard of Guyana, whom the Secretary-General has appointed as the Under-Secretary-General of the Department of General Assembly and Conference Management.
At least 51 United Nations and associated personnel were killed in the line of duty during the course of 2015, according to the United Nations Staff Union’s Standing Committee for the Security and Independence of the International Civil Service.
