In progress at UNHQ

Press Release


ENV/DEV/1123
Achieving green growth through better management of materials throughout their life cycle will be central to this year’s session of the United Nations Commission on Sustainable Development. The Commission, which will take place in New York from 3 to 14 May, starts a new two-year cycle that will review waste management, transport, chemicals, mining and the 10-year framework of programmes on sustainable consumption and production.
SG/SM/12867-AFR/1969
Following is text of UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s message to the thirtieth Ministerial Meeting of the United Nations Standing Advisory Committee on Security Questions in Central Africa, delivered in French by Sahle-Work Zewde, Special Representative and Head of the United Nations Integrated Peacebuilding Office in the Central African Republic, in Kinshasa today, 30 April: