Following is UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s message for World Mental Health Day, to be observed on 10 October: The Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights guarantee the right of everyone to enjoy the highest attainable standard of physical and mental health, including to medical care […]
Following is UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon?s message to the International Meeting of the High Representatives on Security Issues, delivered by Yury Fedotov, Executive Director, United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC), in Sochi, Russian Federation, today, 5 October: It is a pleasure to send greetings to the distinguished officials attending this important meeting. I […]
Following are UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s closing remarks, delivered by Michel Sidibé, Executive Director of the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS), to the Global Fund Replenishment Conference, in New York, today, 5 October: I congratulate all of you — representatives from Governments, business, foundations and civil society — on today’s achievement. This […]
The Committee on the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People today adopted its annual draft report of its work, which welcomed renewed direct Israeli-Palestinian negotiations, and reiterated the body?s call on Israel to completely halt all settlement activity, including in East Jerusalem. The 24-page document, which covered the Committee?s work as […]
The First Committee (Disarmament and International Security) approved its agenda and work programme for the sixty-fifth General Assembly session at a brief organizational meeting today. Up for discussion during the session under seven thematic debate clusters would be nuclear and other weapons of mass destruction, conventional weapons, other disarmament measures and international security, regional […]
The following statement was issued today by the Spokesperson for UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon: The Secretary-General has been following closely developments regarding the hunger strike of imprisoned indigenous people (Mapuche) in Chile. He recognizes the efforts of the Government and welcomes the resumption of dialogue to resolve the current crisis. He encourages all actors […]
The following statement was issued today by the Spokesperson for UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon: The Secretary-General condemns the car bombing today near the venue of the National Day parade in Abuja, which reportedly resulted in a number of deaths and destruction. The attack was particularly sad, coming on the day on which Nigerians were […]
The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria and Magnum Photos will open an exhibition to the public on Tuesday, 5 October, entitled ?Access to Life?. Through photography, multimedia pieces and text, the project chronicles the transformative effect that access to free antiretroviral drug treatments is having on AIDS patients around the world. Working […]
As they swiftly adopted their programme of work for the sixty-fifth session today, delegates in the Fifth Committee (Administrative and Budgetary) stressed the need for the Secretariat?s timely submission of more than 150 documents and the efficient use of resources, as they aim to wrap up an intensive agenda by 10 December. Opening the organizational […]
In a brief organizational meeting today, the Fourth Committee (Special, Political and Decolonization) approved its work programme for the current session, during which it planned to consider more than a dozen topics, ranging from the peaceful uses of outer space to the to a review of peacekeeping operations and the decolonization of the remaining Non-Self-Governing […]
