Following are UN Deputy Secretary-General?s remarks to the High-level Segment of the Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) in Geneva on 4 July: It is a pleasure to join you at this High-level Segment of the Economic and Social Council. I especially welcome your decision to focus on education this year. Let me begin with a […]
With the independence of South Sudan due in a matter of days, the Security Council would be paying particular attention to the world?s newest country, as well as larger regional issues and dynamics, Peter Wittig (Germany), Council President for July, said at a Headquarters press conference today. He said that following independence on 9 […]
Agrees One-Time Supplemental Payment of $85 Million for Troop-Contributing Countries, Seeks Creation of Advisory Group to Consider Their Reimbursement Rates In the early hours of the morning today, the General Assembly, acting on the recommendations of its Fifth Committee (Administrative and Budgetary), adopted a peacekeeping budget of more than $7 billion for the period from 1 July […]
Emphasizing the fundamentally civilian character of aid, the General Assembly today reaffirmed the need for the consent of disaster-affected States when using military assets to support the implementation of humanitarian assistance, in conformity with international law, including international humanitarian law, and humanitarian principles. Recalling the revised guidelines on the use of military assets in […]
Following is UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s message for the International Day of Cooperatives, to be observed on 2 July: The theme for this year’s International Day of Cooperatives, “Youth, the Future of Cooperatives”, highlights the enormous value of engaging the energy and drive of young people. In the wake of the global financial and […]
Following is UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon?s message, delivered by Ján Kubi?, Executive Secretary, United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (ECE), to the fourth session of the Meeting of the Parties to the Convention on Access to Information, Public Participation in Decision-making and Access to Justice in Environmental Matters (Aarhus Convention) in Chisinau, Republic of […]
Following is UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon?s message to the fifty-ninth Pugwash Conference on Science and World Affairs in Berlin today, 1 July: Welcome, all of you, to the fifty-ninth Pugwash Conference on Science and World Affairs. You meet at a time when the world faces great challenges. Yet however difficult they may be, I also […]
Committee Seeks Review of Troop Costs, One-Time Supplemental Payment for Troop Contributors; Secretary-General Asked to Cut Backlog of Death, Disability Claims The Fifth Committee (Administrative and Budgetary), following days of what its Chairman called ?very difficult and at times unorthodox? negotiations, closed its second resumed session this morning by approving the budgets for 13 United Nations […]
Members Differ over Relevance of Syrian Situation to Resolution 1994 (2011) Expressing grave concern about the serious events that had occurred in the area of operations of the United Nations Disengagement Observer Force (UNDOF) on 15 May and 5 June, jeopardizing the long-standing ceasefire between Israel and Syria, the Security Council today renewed the mandate of […]
Convinced that the United Nations must continue to improve its peacekeeping capabilities and enhance the effective deployment of its operations, the Fourth Committee (Special Political and Decolonization) today approved, without a vote, a draft resolution by which the General Assembly would review the implementation of previous proposals of the Special Committee on Peacekeeping Operations […]
