Palestinian issues

Following is UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s message to the United Nations Seminar on Assistance to the Palestinian People, to be held in Vienna on 31 March:

The Committee on the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People will convene the United Nations Seminar on Assistance to the Palestinian People at the United Nations Office in Vienna (Vienna International Centre) in Boardroom D of Building C on 31 March and 1 April.

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

Following are UN Deputy Secretary-General Jan Eliasson's remarks, on behalf of Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, at the opening of the 2015 session of the Committee on the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People, in New York today:

Despite the collective failure of Israelis, Palestinians and the international community to advance a political solution during the 2014 International Year of Solidarity with the Palestinian People aimed at catalysing global action, “all good forces must now be mobilized”, Deputy Secretary-General Jan Eliasson urged today in a message from the Secretary-General.

The following joint statement was issued today by the Spokespeople for United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon and League of Arab States Secretary-General Nabil Elaraby:

United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon announced today the appointment of Sandra Mitchell of the United States as Deputy Commissioner-General of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) at the level of Assistant Secretary-General.

The Bureau of the Committee on the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People issued the following statement today:

The following Security Council press statement was issued today by Council President Mahamat Zene Cherif (Chad):

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