On Tuesday, 8 December, in the evening, United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon flew from Paris, France, to Helsinki, Finland, to participate in the commemoration of the sixtieth anniversary of the country’s membership in the United Nations.
On 17 December 2015, the Security Council Committee established pursuant to resolution 2127 (2013) concerning the Central African Republic approved the following two individuals as subject to the measures imposed by paragraphs 4 and 7 of resolution 2196 (2015):
United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has appointed Catherine Pollard of Guyana, Under-Secretary-General for General Assembly and Conference Management, as the new Coordinator for Multilingualism, in implementation of General Assembly resolution 69/250. In this role, Ms. Pollard is responsible for coordinating the overall implementation of multilingualism Secretariat-wide. This appointment is made pursuant to General Assembly resolutions 54/64 of 1999 and 61/266 of 2007 on the appointment of a senior official as coordinator of questions relating to multilingualism.
The following statement was issued today by the Spokesman for UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon:
United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon flew from New York to Paris on Thursday evening, 3 December, to resume participation in the twenty-first Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (COP).
Following is UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s message on International Migrants Day, observed on 18 December:
The United Nations today released the sixty-fifth volume of the Yearbook of the United Nations, covering the Organization’s global activities in 2011.
Following is UN Secretary‑General Ban Ki‑moon’s message for International Human Solidarity Day, observed on 20 December:
Following are UN Deputy Secretary-General Jan Eliasson's remarks at the Security Council meeting on trafficking in persons in situations of conflict, in New York today:
Following is UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s message, delivered by Wu Hongbo, Under-Secretary-General for Economic and Social Affairs, to the second World Internet Conference, in Wuzhen, China, today:
