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:
United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today announced the appointment of Haile Tilahun Gebremariam of Ethiopia as the Head of Mission of the United Nations Interim Security Force for Abyei (UNISFA).
The following statement was issued today by the Spokesman for UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon:
United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today announced the appointment of Major General Purna Chandra Thapa of Nepal as the Head of Mission and Force Commander of the United Nations Disengagement Observer Force.
The following Security Council press statement was issued today by Council President Cristián Barros Melet (Chile):
The following statement was issued today by the Spokesman for UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon:
