Press Release

The following Security Council press statement was issued today by Council President Koro Bessho (Japan):

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 Koro Bessho (Japan):

United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon left Kigali, Rwanda, for Nairobi, Kenya, on 17 July for the opening of the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD 14).

The following statement was issued today by the Spokesman for UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon:

Following is UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s message, delivered by Jeffrey Feltman, Under-Secretary-General for Political Affairs, for the inauguration of the new premises of the United Nations Regional Office for Central Africa (UNOCA), in Libreville today:

United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon left Nairobi, Kenya, on the evening of 17 July, for Durban, South Africa, in order to attend the AIDS2016 Conference.

Following are UN Deputy Secretary-General Jan Eliasson’s opening remarks at the fifth biennial High-level Meeting of the Development Cooperation Forum, in New York today:

United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon left New York on Thursday, 14 July, for Kigali, Rwanda, where the African Union Summit was taking place, in order to meet with African leaders on the situation in South Sudan.

On 21 July 2016, the Security Council Committee established pursuant to resolution 1988 (2011) enacted the amendments specified with strikethrough and underline in the entry below to its List (the 1988 List) of individuals and entities subject to the assets freeze, travel ban and arms embargo set out in paragraph 1 of Security Council resolution 2255 (2015) adopted under Chapter VII of the Charter of the United Nations.

A. Individuals