Following is the text of UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon?s message to the Emergency Ministerial Meeting on the Horn of Africa, as delivered by Gwi-Yeop Son, Director of Corporate Programmes Division, Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, in Rome, 18 August: Thank you for coming together for this Emergency Ministerial Meeting on the Horn of […]
The following Security Council press statement was issued today by Council President Hardeep Singh Puri ( India): The members of the Security Council were briefed by Mr. Abou Moussa, Special Representative of the Secretary-General, on the activities he undertook since his tenure as Head of the United Nations Regional Office for Central Africa (UNOCA) began […]
The following statement was issued today by the Spokesperson for UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon: The Secretary-General strongly condemns today?s coordinatedterror attacks in southern Israel. He expresses his condolences to the families of the victims and wishes a speedy recovery to the injured. The Secretary-General hopes that the perpetrators are swiftly identified and brought to justice. […]
United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, accompanied by Madam Ban Soon‑taek, arrived in Seoul from Tokyo on Tuesday afternoon, 9 August. It was his first trip home since he was reappointed for a second term as Secretary-General. On Wednesday morning, the Secretary-General spoke at a Global Compact breakfast event, thanking the Korean business community for their […]
The following statement was issued today by the Spokesperson for UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon: The Secretary-General welcomes the signing of the Joint Communiqué by representatives of the Government of Malawi and of the civil society organizations, following a meeting facilitated by the United Nations in Lilongwe on 16 August 2011. The Secretary-General is encouraged by […]
The eighth anniversary of the bombing of the United Nations headquarters in Baghdad will be observed on Friday, 19 August, at a brief ceremony to be held at 10:15 a.m. in the public lobby of the General Assembly Building, in front of the memorial plaque located outside the Meditation Room. On 19 August 2003, a truck bomb attack destroyed […]
While humanitarian aid was reaching hundreds of thousands in the drought-devastated Horn of Africa, a still more extensive scale-up was needed, said the United Nations Emergency Relief Coordinator at a Headquarters press conference today. Valerie Amos, who is also Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs, briefed correspondents on the heels of a three-day trip to Kenya […]
On 15 August 2011, the Security Council Committee established pursuant to resolution 1988 (2011) approved the addition of the entry specified below to the Committee’s List (the 1988 List) of individuals and entities subject to the assets freeze, travel ban and arms embargo set out in paragraph 1 of Security Council resolution 1988 (2011): A. […]
The following statement was issued by the Middle East Quartet ( United Nations, Russian Federation, United States, European Union): The Quartet is greatly concerned by Israel?s recent announcements to advance planning for new housing units in Ariel and East Jerusalem, and reiterates its position in this regard, in particular its statement of 12 March […]
The following statement was issued today by the Spokesperson for UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon: The Secretary-General strongly condemns the series of bomb attacks in several cities across Iraq today that reportedly killed dozens of people and wounded many others. This is a particularly heinous act as it takes place during the holy month of […]
