Following are UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s remarks at the Security Council thematic open debate “Addressing impunity: Effective justice for crimes of sexual violence in conflict”, in New York on 24 June:
One year since United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon launched the Zero Hunger Challenge at the Rio+20 Conference on Sustainable Development, a broad range of countries, groups and individuals have taken action to eliminate hunger.
One year after the Rio+20 Conference on Sustainable Development, where the eight largest multilateral development banks jointly committed to invest approximately $175 billion in more sustainable developing-world transport systems over the next 10 years, implementation of those commitments is on track, according to experts attending a dialogue hosted in Berlin by the United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs and the Government of Germany.
Following are Deputy Secretary-General Jan Eliasson’s remarks at the World Refugee Day event at the Cathedral Church of Saint John the Divine in New York on 20 June: