The United Nations will remember the children who perished during the Holocaust with a week of events culminating in a memorial ceremony to be held in the General Assembly Hall in New York on 27 January. The global network of United Nations information centres is also playing its part in remembering these children with film […]
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Following is UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s address to the Stanley Foundation Conference on the Responsibility to Protect (R2P), in New York on 18 January: Thank you, Dr. Gregorian of the Carnegie Foundation, for your very kind introduction. It’s a great honour and pleasure for me to participate in this very important gathering and address this […]
The Secretary-General has appointed John Hocking of Australia as the Registrar of the International Residual Mechanism for Criminal Tribunals. Mr. Hocking has been serving as Registrar of the International Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia since May 2009, and will continue in that position while working as the Registrar of the Residual Mechanism. The Residual […]
Following is UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s message to the seminar marking the seventieth anniversary of the “Declaration by United Nations” organized by the University of London School of Oriental and African Studies, delivered by Margaret Anstee, former United Nations Under-Secretary-General and Special Representative of the Secretary-General in Angola, in London on 18 January: It is […]
Experts from Switzerland, Kazakhstan Replace Members following Resignations The Meeting of States Parties to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights today elected Walter Kälin (Switzerland) and Marat Sarsembayev (Kazakhstan) to the Human Rights Committee, replacing members who had resigned before completing their four-year terms of office. Given the unusual circumstance of two […]
United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon and Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) Director-General José Graziano da Silva announced today their appointment of Ertharin Cousin (United States) as Executive Director of the World Food Programme (WFP), at the Under-Secretary-General level, in succession to Josette Sheeran. The Executive Board of WFP has confirmed its concurrence with the appointment. […]
Following is UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon?s message to the fifteenth ordinary session of the Conference of Heads of State and Governments of the Economic Community of Central African States (ECCAS), read by Abou Moussa, Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Central Africa and Head of the United Nations Regional Office for Central Africa, in […]
Following is UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon?s remarks to the World Future Energy Summit opening, in Abu Dhabi, 16 January: Energy is central to everything we do ? from powering our economies to achieving the Millennium Development Goals, from combating climate change to underpinning global security. It is the golden thread that connects economic growth, increased social […]
In Briefing, Drought, Piracy Flagged As Emerging Threats amid Persistence of Drug Trafficking, Organized Crime The situation in West Africa had taken a turn ?in the right direction?, the Secretary-General?s Special Representative in the subregion told the Security Council today, noting that a cessation of ?open conflict? and tensions tied to institutional political unrest […]
