Press Release

Following are UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s remarks at the University of Maryland on the “Do Good Generation”, in College Park, Maryland, on 14 October:

Following are UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s remarks to the General Assembly meeting to pay tribute to the memory of Girma Asmerom Tesfay, the late Permanent Representative of the State of Eritrea to the United Nations, in New York today:

On 10 October 2016, the Security Council Committee established pursuant to resolution 1533 (2004) concerning the Democratic Republic of the Congo met with representatives of Burundi, Central African Republic, Congo, Rwanda, Sudan, South Sudan, United Republic of Tanzania and Uganda.

Following is UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s message on the International Day for the Eradication of Poverty, observed on 17 October:

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

On 10 October 2016, the Coordinator of the Group of Experts established by resolution 1533 (2004) and recently extended pursuant to resolution 2293 (2016) briefed the Security Council Committee established pursuant to resolution 1533 (2004) on updates submitted to the Committee concerning the situation in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, accompanied by Madam Ban Soon‑taek, travelled from Bern, Switzerland, to Strasbourg on Tuesday, 4 October, to attend a climate-related event at the European Parliament.

United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon left Hamburg, Germany, in the evening of Friday, 7 October, for Reykjavik to participate in the Assembly of the Arctic Circle, accompanied by Madam Ban Soon-taek.

On 13 October 2016, the Security Council Committee established pursuant to resolution 1533 (2004) concerning the Democratic Republic of the Congo enacted the amendments specified with strikethrough and underline in the entries below on its Sanctions List of individuals and entities subject to the measures reaffirmed by paragraphs 1, 4 and 5 of Security Council resolution 2293 (2016) adopted under Chapter VII of the Charter of the United Nations:

United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, accompanied by Madam Ban Soon-taek, arrived in Rome from Brussels on Wednesday, 5 October.