On 2 September 2015, by its resolution 2237 (2015), the Security Council terminated the travel and financial measures contained in paragraph 4 of resolution 1521 (2003) and paragraph 1 of resolution 1532 (2004) and the 1521 Sanctions list was, thereby, dissolved.
United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon welcomes the announcement by the Sustainable Energy for All Executive Committee of the selection of Rachel Kyte of the United Kingdom as the first Chief Executive Officer of the international not-for-profit organization “Sustainable Energy for All Partnership” (SE4ALL Partnership) to be hosted by the Government of Austria.
The following statement was issued today by the Spokesman for UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon:
On 3 September 2015, the Security Council Committee pursuant to resolutions 1267 (1999) and 1989 (2011) approved the addition of the entry specified below to its Al-Qaida Sanctions List of individuals and entities subject to the assets freeze, travel ban and arms embargo set out in paragraph 1 of Security Council resolution 2161 (2014) adopted under Chapter VII of the Charter of the United Nations.
The closing event for a multimedia exhibition entitled “My Planet from Space: Beauty and Fragility” organized by the European Space Agency in collaboration with the United Nations Office for Outer Space Affairs will take place in the Visitors’ Lobby on 8 September at 6:00 p.m.
Following are UN Deputy Secretary-General Jan Eliasson’s remarks at the ceremony dedicating a commemorative plaque at the Tree of Peace and Unity, in New York today:
Following is UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s message for the International Day of Charity, observed on 5 September:
The following Security Council press statement was issued today by Council President Vitaly Churkin (Russian Federation):
As Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon travels to China to attend a commemorative event in Beijing marking the seventieth anniversary of the end of the Second World War, the United Nations Department of Public Information has announced that the flagship United Nations handbook, Basic Facts about the United Nations, is being published today in Chinese for the first time in nearly 29 years.
Following is UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s message, delivered by Thomas Gass, United Nations Assistant Secretary-General for Economic and Social Affairs, to the breakfast meeting with parliamentarians on the implementation of the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction, in New York today:
