On 20 October 2015, the Security Council Committee established pursuant to resolution 2127 (2013) concerning the Central African Republic enacted the amendments specified with strikethrough and underline in the entry below on its Sanctions List of individuals and entities subject to the assets freeze and travel ban set out in paragraphs 4 and 7 of Security Council resolution 2196 (2015) adopted under Chapter VII of the Charter of the United Nations:
The Security Council Committee pursuant to resolutions 1267 (1999) and 1989 (2011) has agreed to convey to Member States the current trends in financing of the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), Al-Nusrah Front for the People of the Levant (ANF) (QDe.137) and any others designated as associated with Al-Qaida. They are drawn from the assessment by the Analytical Support and Sanctions Monitoring Team of the impact of the measures imposed in Security Council resolution 2199 (2015), pursuant to paragraph 30 of the resolution, and the Chair’s summary of this document (S/2015/739). The Committee also wishes to provide suggestions to Member States to assist with their implementation of resolution 2199 (2015).
Following are UN Deputy Secretary-General Jan Eliasson’s remarks at the Security Council open debate on working methods, in New York today:
NEW YORK, 20 October (United Nations Statistics Division) — Today, statistical offices, universities, international organizations, the private sector and statisticians worldwide join the Statistics Division in celebrating the second Word Statistics Day, promoting the invaluable importance of data in the uplifting of lives: “Better data. Better lives.”
Following is the text of UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s video message to the Israeli and Palestinian people, recorded in Bratislava today:
Following are UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s remarks, as prepared for delivery, at the inauguration of an exhibition on the seventieth anniversary of the United Nations, in Bratislava today:
Following is UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s message on United Nations Day, to be observed on 24 October:
On 9 October, the Security Council Committee established pursuant to resolution 2140 (2014) was briefed by the Panel of Experts on international humanitarian law and finance aspects of its mandate. The Committee also held an exchange on the briefing and recommendations by the Panel of Experts.
Following is UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s message, delivered by Lenni Montiel, Assistant Secretary-General for Economic Development, to the second informal interactive consultation with stakeholders of the World Summit on the Information Society, in New York on 19 October:
Following is UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s address, as prepared for delivery, upon receiving an honorary doctorate and gold medal from Comenius University, in Bratislava today:
