On 13 December 2011, the Security Council Committee pursuant to resolutions 1267 (1999) and 1989 (2011) enacted the amendments specified with strikethrough and underline in the entries below on 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 […]
Adopts Texts on Global Health and Foreign Policy, Culture of Peace, Fills Vacancies on Peacebuilding Commission Organizational Committee The General Assembly today, recommitting itself to honouring the victims of what several delegates called ?the most tragic chapter in human history?, adopted a resolution endorsing the construction at United Nations Headquarters of a permanent memorial to […]
The following statement was issued on 12 December by the Spokesperson for UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon: The Secretary-General welcomes the holding of the legislative elections in Côte d?Ivoire and commends the people of Côte d?Ivoire for the generally calm and orderly manner in which they exercised their right to vote. This election is an […]
The following statement was issued today by the Spokesperson for UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon: The Secretary-General is deeply concerned about today?s reports of the Government of Israel?s decision to approve the construction of 40 houses and a farm near the settlement of Efrat in the occupied territory near the Palestinian town of Bethlehem. The […]
Following are UN Deputy Secretary-General Asha-Rose Migiro?s remarks to the tenth session of the Assembly of States Parties to the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court in New York on 12 December: I am pleased to address you on behalf of Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, who is away from Headquarters on official business. The Secretary-General […]
Other Texts Concern Counter-terrorism, International Law Education, Global Trade Law Development, Examination of Laws to Prevent Statelessness In keeping with the tradition of consensus practiced in the Sixth Committee (Legal), the General Assembly adopted without a vote 22 resolutions and three draft decisions that highlighted the priorities of the Organization in the international legal […]
Also Begins Consideration of $617 Million in Financing for 30 Political Missions in 2012; Two Largest ? Two Thirds of Cost ? In Afghanistan, Iraq The ambitious, multi-year overhaul of the historic United Nations Headquarters ? known as the Capital Master Plan ? was on track for completion by the end of 2014 within […]
Concluding its session today, the Second Committee (Economic and Financial) approved three draft resolutions, including one on information and communications technology for development, by which the General Assembly would stress that the development promise of science and technology remained unfilled for the majority of the poor. Emphasizing the need to bridge the digital divide, […]
The following Security Council statement was issued today by Council President Vitaly Churkin (Russian Federation): The members of the Security Council condemned in the strongest terms the terrorist attack against a United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL) convoy near Tyre, Lebanon, on 9 December, which injured five United Nations peacekeepers of the French […]
United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has appointed György Busztin of Hungary as his Deputy Special Representative for Iraq. Mr. Busztin, who will head the political, electoral and constitutional support component of the United Nations Assistance Mission for Iraq (UNAMI), replaces Jerzy Skuratowicz of Poland, who has served in Iraq for the past two years. […]
