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.
The Independent Audit Advisory Committee of the United Nations (IAAC) held its thirty-second session from 8 to 11 December at the United Nations Office at Geneva.
Following is UN Secretary-General’s message to the forty-first plenary Assembly of the World Federation of United Nations Associations, held in Vancouver, Canada, 18-20 November:
Following is UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s message, delivered by Yukio Takasu, Under-Secretary-General for Management, at the Umoja “Go Live” celebration, in New York today:
Following is UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s message, delivered by Under-Secretary-General Susana Malcorra, Chef de Cabinet, to the event marking United Nations Day, today in Madrid:
Following are UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s remarks for the unveiling of “Enlightened Universe”, in New York today:
Following are UN Deputy Secretary-General Jan Eliasson’s remarks at the United Nations Secretary-General Awards ceremony, in New York today:
