Following is UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s message, delivered by Major General Adrian Foster, Deputy Military Adviser for Peacekeeping Operations, for the commemoration ceremony for fallen Peruvian peacekeepers, in Lima today:
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The following statement was issued today by the Spokesman for UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon:
The following Security Council press statement was issued today by Council President François Delattre (France):
United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon announced today the appointment of Major General Michael Lollesgaard of Denmark as the Force Commander of the United Nations Multidimensional Integrated Stabilization Mission in Mali (MINUSMA).
Continuing its 2015 session today, the Special Committee on Peacekeeping Operations tackled a plethora of peacekeeping concerns from the use of new technology and civilian protection mandates to pre-deployment planning and training to troop reimbursement rates.
Over the past year, the United Nations’ 120,000 peacekeepers had carried out their work in “highly fragile” conditions — from asymmetric attacks in Mali to the Ebola outbreak in West Africa — laying bare the need for the Organization’s flagship enterprise to be adequately equipped for changing security realities, the Special Committee on Peacekeeping Operations heard today, as it opened its 2015 session.
Following are UN Deputy Secretary-General Jan Eliasson’s remarks to the Special Committee on Peacekeeping Operations, in New York today:
United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today announced the appointment of David Gressly of the United States as his Deputy Special Representative for Operations and the Rule of Law in the United Nations Organization Stabilization Mission in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (MONUSCO).
The following Security Council press statement was issued today by Council President Liu Jieyi (China):
The following statement was issued today by the Spokesman for UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon: