Following are Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon?s remarks at the General Assembly plenary meeting on the human right to water and sanitation, today, 27 July, in New York: At any one time, close to half of all people in developing countries are suffering from health problems caused by poor water and sanitation. Together, unclean water and poor […]
United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has appointed Lieutenant General Tadesse Werede Tesfay (Ethiopia) as Head of Mission and Force Commander of the United Nations Interim Security Force for Abyei (UNISFA). Lieutenant General Tesfay will be responsible for discharging the mandate of UNISFA, as contained in Security Council resolution 1990 of 27 June 2011, including […]
Following are Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s remarks at the unveiling of the London Olympic Countdown Clock, in New York, 27 July: I thank Ambassador [Lyall] Grant for organizing this very meaningful and historic event. And I thank Carl Lewis for your contribution. You are the hero. Everybody knows your Olympic days. I was one of […]
Fresh from addressing the Security Council, the commanders of four United Nations peacekeeping missions in Africa and the Middle East addressed a Headquarters press conference today on their efforts to protect civilians in Darfur, address charges of human trafficking among senior peacekeepers in Liberia and, more generally, implement measures to ensure that troops everywhere […]
State-building Efforts Also in Jeopardy, Top Official Warns As Delegates Consider Bid for Palestine Statehood, United Nations Membership Without a credible path out of the profound, persistent deadlock in the Middle East peace process, coupled with far-reaching steps on the ground, theviability of the two-State solution and the Palestinian Authority?s state-building agenda was in […]
Sixty Speakers Voice Support for Participation of ?Dot-Com Generation? In Peace, Development Efforts, Deeming Twenty-First Century One of Human Capital Senior Government officials at a special session of the General Assembly today called on Member States, with the support of the United Nations, to take action to enable young people to overcome widespread unemployment […]
The following statement was issued today by the Spokesperson for UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon: The Secretary-General strongly condemns the 26 July attack against a United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL) convoy on the coastal road near the town of Saida (Sidon), outside UNIFIL’s area of operations. According to preliminary information, the attack injured five […]
The following Security Council press statement was issued today by Council President Peter Wittig (Germany): 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 Saida, Lebanon, on 26 July, which injured six United Nations peacekeepers of the French […]
Following are UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon?s remarks at the dinner in honour of Alain Le Roy, Under-secretary-General for Peacekeeping Operations, hosted by Gérard Araud, Permanent Representative of France to the United Nations, in New York, 25 July: When Mr. Le Roy told me that he would be leaving, I thought first about the people of Haiti, the people […]
Determining that the situation in Côte d?Ivoire remained a threat to international peace and security in the region, the Security Council decided today to extend until 31 July 2012 the mandate of the United Nations peacekeeping mission in the West African country. Unanimously adopting resolution 2000 (2011), under Chapter VII of the United Nations Charter, the […]
