Peacekeeping

Following are UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s remarks to the General Assembly’s formal debate on peace operations today:

On 2 October 2015, the United Nations-African Union Joint Task Force on Peace and Security held its eleventh consultative meeting at United Nations Headquarters in New York, on the margins of the seventieth session of the United Nations General Assembly.  The United Nations Secretariat and African Union Commission were represented by senior officials from the two organizations.

United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today announced the appointment of Maman S. Sidikou of Niger as his Special Representative for the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Head of the United Nations Organization Stabilization Mission in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (MONUSCO).

Mr. Sidikou succeeds Martin Kobler of Germany, to whom the Secretary-General is grateful for his important contribution and dedicated service for the past two years in supporting the implementation of the MONUSCO mandate.

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 Román Oyarzun Marchesi (Spain):

On 1 October 2015, the United Nations convened, on the margins of the general debate of the seventieth session of the General Assembly, a Ministerial Consultative Meeting on the Malian Peace Process and the Implementation of the Agreement on Peace and Reconciliation in Mali.

United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today announced the appointment of Lieutenant-General Ajax Porto Pinheiro of Brazil as the Force Commander of the United Nations Stabilization Mission in Haiti (MINUSTAH).

Following is UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s message, delivered by Hervé Ladsous, Under-Secretary-General for Peacekeeping Operations, to the high-level dialogue on United Nations peacekeeping operations, in New York today:

Following are UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s remarks at the Leaders’ Summit on Peacekeeping, in New York today:

The following Security Council press statement was issued today by Council President Vitaly I. Churkin (Russian Federation):