With malnutrition rates in Somalia approaching emergency proportions, the United Nations Resident and Humanitarian Coordinator for the East African country today sounded the alarm about the effects of the deadly confluence of events driven by prolonged drought and skyrocketing global food and commodity prices. ?We are seriously concerned about the rapidly deteriorating situation in […]
Following are UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon?s remarks to the General Assembly debate on global economic governance, today, 28 June, in New York: I thank the President of the General Assembly for convening this important thematic debate. Over the past two decades, the world economy has undergone a major transformation. We are more and more interconnected. […]
While renewable energy sources could help mitigate climate change, it was up to Governments to take the necessary action to make that possibility a reality, the head of the recognized scientific and technical authority on the phenomenon said at a Headquarters press conference today. “The science clearly requires actions to be taken,” said Rajendra […]
Efficiency Does Not Always Bestow Legitimacy, Says Assembly President; Legitimacy Is Sole Preserve of Assembly with Its ?One State, One Voice? Principle With gaps in the world?s multilateral frameworks hindering the international community?s ability to comprehensively and equitably meet the most critical global challenges, Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon called for improving the multilateral system?s coherence […]
European Role in Fostering Middle East Peace Under Consideration as International Meeting Opens in Brussels (Received from a UN Information Officer.) BRUSSELS, 28 June ? Given the frozen state of Middle East peace negotiations at the present critical time, the international community must do its part to bring the parties back to the table, […]
Ministers, Chair of Peacebuilding Commission Country Configuration Report on Security-sector Reform, Other Efforts Painting a picture of a country at a crossroads, the top United Nations official in Guinea-Bissau told the Security Council today that, while all basic conditions for genuinely advancing national dialogue and reforming the security sector were in place, durable progress […]
On 24 June 2011, the Security Council Committee established pursuant to resolution 1970 (2011) concerning the Libyan Arab Jamahiriya approved the addition of the entries specified below to its List of Individuals and Entities subject to the travel ban and/or assets freeze. Entries of individuals: 14. AL-BARASSI, Safia Farkash (Listed on 24 June 2011 […]
The following Security Council press statement was issued today by Council President Noël Nelson Messone (Gabon): The members of the Security Council were briefed by the Special Representative of the Secretary-General, Joseph Mutaboba, and the Chair of the Guinea-Bissau Configuration of the Peacebuilding Commission, Ambassador Maria Luiza Ribeiro Viotti. The members of the Security […]
Threat to Development, Stability of Fragile States Cited in Briefing to Members Warning that illicit drugs and organized criminal networks were wreaking havoc in many countries ? even holding hostage the stability and development of entire regions ? the top United Nations anti-drugs and crime official told the Security Council today that tackling those […]
Following are UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon?s remarks on the occasion of Tunisia?s deposit of an instrument of accession to the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court, today, 24 June: Ambassador [Ghazi] Jomaa [of Tunisia], thank you for depositing Tunisia?s instrument of accession to the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court with the Office […]
