Council Also Adopts Texts on Extending Social Protection Systems, Promoting Tobacco Control, Strengthening Data Collection on Gender Violence The Economic and Social Council today continued the work of its general segment today, adopting by consensus 10 resolutions and 7 decisions broadly aimed at strengthening crime prevention measures, tackling illegal narcotics trade and extending effective […]
Following are UN Deputy Secretary-General Asha-Rose Migiro?s remarks to the African Investment Forum, in Kampala on 25 July: It is a pleasure to join you. We are here together today because more and more people are coming to understand the remarkable extent of investment opportunities in Africa. Like you, I want to do my […]
On 22 July 2010, the Security Council Al-Qaida and Taliban Sanctions Committee adopted revised Guidelines for the Conduct of its Work. The Guidelines were revised in compliance with paragraph 35 of Security Council resolution 1904 (2009), which directed the Committee, “as a matter of priority, to review its guidelines with respect to the provisions […]
Following is UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s message to the Hiroshima Conference for the Total Abolition of Nuclear Weapons by 2020, to be held in Hiroshima, 27-29 July: I am pleased to greet all the participants in the Hiroshima Conference for the Total Abolition of Nuclear Weapons by 2020. Nuclear disarmament is often dismissed as […]
During a press conference at Headquarters today, two senior United Nations officials responded to questions regarding a leaked 50-page internal memo sent to United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon from Under-Secretary General Inga-Britt Ahlenius, upon her exit as the Under-Secretary General for the Office of Internal Oversight Services (OIOS). Speaking by video link from London, […]
Following is the text of UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s video message to the children of Gaza on the occasion of the UNRWA Summer Games, to be held on 22 July: As-salamu alaykum! Hello! I’m Ban Ki-moon, Secretary-General of the United Nations. And I want to congratulate the children of Gaza for taking part in this great […]
Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon arrived in Madrid, Spain, on Friday, 16 July, in the morning, to attend the first meeting of the Millennium Development Goals Advocacy Group, which he had recently launched. The Secretary-General first met President Paul Kagame of Rwanda, one of the co-Chairs of the Millennium Development Goals Advocacy Group. They discussed the […]
The Secretary-General arrived in Geneva on Sunday, 18 July. That afternoon, he visited the League of Nations Museum, at the Palais des Nations. The following day, he held a breakfast meeting with the heads of the United Nations organizations based in Geneva. The Secretary-General then met with Wu Bangguo, Chairman of the Standing Committee […]
Somalia is one of the most complicated humanitarian situations in the world, yet the United Nations has made significant achievements there to date, said Mark Bowden, Resident and Humanitarian Coordinator for Somalia. During the noon briefing at United Nations Headquarters, Mr. Bowden said that one of the things that struck him was that the country […]
Security Council Hears Some 37 Speakers in Day-Long Open Debate on Middle East Detailing the conduct of ongoing ?proximity talks? for Middle East peace, a top United Nations official called today on Israelis and Palestinians to remove the obstacles to direct negotiations, as he opened a day-long Security Council debate in which some 37 […]
