Following are UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon?s remarks, as prepared for delivery, to the Cairo Conference on Libya, 14 April: I thank the League of Arab States for co-convening this meeting with the United Nations. And I thank all of you for accepting our invitation. The situation in Libya is still very complex. Yet we […]
The following Security Council press statement was issued today by Council President Néstor Osorio ( Colombia): The members of the Security Council condemned in the strongest terms the apparent terrorist attack that occurred in Minsk, Republic of Belarus, on 11 April 2011, causing numerous deaths and injuries. They expressed their deep sympathy and condolences to the […]
Forest loss was accelerating across forest basins in the Amazon, Congo and Borneo-Mekong regions, areas that together comprised 80 per cent of the world?s tropical forests, were home to two thirds of the world?s terrestrial biodiversity and provided livelihoods to more than 1 billion people, Henri Djombo, Minister of Sustainable Development, Forests and Environment of the […]
Updating the press on the latest developments regarding the work of the sixty-fifth General Assembly, Joseph Deiss, the 192-member body’s President, today highlighted a host of upcoming topical debates and took questions on the push for Palestinian statehood, as well as on the status of the negotiations to reform and expand the Security Council. […]
With attacks on humanitarian workers increasing, aid organizations must return to core neutrality principles and negotiate safe access with all parties rather than abandoning the victims of conflict, according to a United Nations report launched this afternoon at Headquarters. ?There are no places on earth where humanitarian organizations should not go or can not […]
Following are the closing remarks of Deputy Secretary-General Asha-Rose Migiro at the interactive thematic debate of the General Assembly on ?The Rule of Law and Global Challenges?, in New York, 11 April: I am honoured to close this debate, which I understand has been rich and engaging. I am particularly grateful to President [Joseph] Deiss […]
On 30 March 2011, the Security Council, by paragraph 12 of resolution 1975 (2011), decided that the following five individuals (as cited in annex I of the resolution) shall be subject to financial and travel measures imposed by paragraphs 9 to 11 of resolution 1572 (2004): Name (last/first): GBAGBO, Laurent; Date of birth (DOB): 31 May 1945; Place […]
Following are the remarks of UN Deputy Secretary-General Asha-Rose Migiro to the American Bar Association’s “ABA Day at the UN”, in New York, 11 April: I am pleased to address the American Bar Association at this year’s “ABA day at the UN”. The Secretary-General and I attach great importance to the close ties between […]
With attacks on humanitarian workers increasing, aid organizations must return to core neutrality principles and negotiate safe access with all parties rather than abandoning the victims of conflict, according to a United Nations report launched this afternoon at Headquarters. ?There are no places on earth where humanitarian organizations should not go or can not […]
Robust investments in family planning services could pay immense dividends in the battle to achieve development targets, delegates and experts said today as the Commission on Population and Development continued the 2011 general debate of its forty-fourth session. ?Family planning is to maternal survival what vaccination is to child survival,? affirmed keynote speaker Amy […]
