Even as the withdrawal of militant Al-Shabaab forces marked a critical opportunity to reach Mogadishu?s starving population, fresh challenges ? including insufficient manpower ? now threatened humanitarian operations, said top officials during a Headquarters press conference today. The Somali Transitional Federal Government, alongside the African Union Mission in Somalia (AMISOM), with the support of […]
The following Security Council press statement was issued today by Council President Hardeep Singh Puri ( India): On 9 August the members of the Security Council heard a briefing on the situation in Yemen. The members of the Security Council expressed their grave concern at the serious deterioration of the economic and humanitarian situation in […]
Following is UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s message for International Youth Day, to be observed 12 August: “Change Our World” is more than the theme of this year’s International Youth Day; it is an injunction that should inspire young people at all times. Far too many of the world’s more than 1 billion young people lack the […]
The following statement was issued on 8 August by the Spokesperson for UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon: The Secretary-General welcomes the steps announced by the President of the United States on 4 August to strengthen his Government’s capacity to help prevent genocide and other mass atrocity crimes. If the responsibility to protect is to become […]
The following statement was issued on 6 August by the Spokesperson for UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon: The Secretary-General is profoundly saddened by the news of the helicopter crash that took the lives of both Afghan and American soldiers in Afghanistan. The Secretary-General wishes to convey his deepest sympathies to the families and loved ones of […]
Non-governmental organizations (NGOs) gearing up for the sixty-forth annual United Nations DPI/NGO meeting in Bonn, Germany, have chosen sustainable development and volunteerism as their major topics of discussion. The meeting, which will take place from 3-5 September, has as its theme, ?Sustainable Societies: Responsive Citizens?. Non-governmental organizations will use these twin themes to showcase the […]
With more than 200,000 people having fled the Sudanese army?s operations in the Nuba Mountains of South Kordofan, along with the decimation of crops and evidence of mass graves, a cleric from the province and representatives of international civil society called this afternoon on the Security Council to act. ?We consider this as ethnic […]
Looking back over an ?intense? three-year tenure at the helm of United Nations Peacekeeping Operations, outgoing Under-Secretary-General Alain Le Roy said that, despite some shortcomings, blue helmets should be credited for their achievements in reducing the scale of conflicts around the world. ?It?s a failure that we have not been able to protect everyone,? […]
Disassociating Itself from Consensus, Lebanon Says Text Does Not Help Address Situation in Syria, Stresses ?Interconnectedness? between Two Nations Expressing ?profound regret? over the many hundreds of deaths in Syria and condemning what it called widespread violations of human rights against civilians by Syrian authorities, the Security Council today called for an immediate end […]
The following is a statement by UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon: I welcome the presidential statement adopted by the Security Council today as the clear message of the international community. The world has watched the deteriorating situation in Syria with the most profound concern, but the events of the past few days have been brutally shocking. […]
