The General Assembly?s Fourth Committee (Special Political and Decolonization) today elected Noel Nelson Messone ( Gabon) as Chair for its sixty-seventh session. Elected by acclamation, Mr. Messone has been the Permanent Representative of Gabon to the United Nations since February 2011. Prior to that appointment, he was Ambassador to Belgium, Netherlands, Luxembourg and the European Union, while serving […]
President of General Assembly, New Joint Representative Brief Member States With some 2.5 million people in Syria urgently needing assistance, the humanitarian situation was deteriorating, both in that strife-torn nation and in neighbouring countries affected by the nearly 19-month-old crisis, Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said today, as he briefed the General Assembly on the latest […]
The following statement was issued today by the Spokesperson for UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon: The Secretary-General is concerned by the harsh sentences, including life imprisonment, upheld by a Bahrain appeals court against 20 Bahraini political activists. He urges the Bahraini authorities to allow all defendants to exercise their right to appeal and to ensure that […]
(Based on information provided by the Protocol and Liaison Service) Geir O. Pedersen, the new Permanent Representative of Norway to the United Nations, today presented his credentials to UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon. Until his latest appointment, Mr. Pedersen was Director General of the Department for United Nations, Peace and Humanitarian Affairs at his country?s Ministry […]
(Based on information provided by the Protocol and Liaison Service) Ryszard Sarkowicz, the new Permanent Representative of Poland to the United Nations, today presented his credentials to UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon. From 2010 until his latest appointment, Mr. Sarkowicz was the Director of the Legal and Treaty Department at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in […]
?Enough is enough,? said Dieudonné Mbaya Tshiakany, National Moderator of l?Eglise du Christ au Congo, referring to the conflicts that had killed 6 million Congolese, at a Headquarters press conference, entitled "Peace is still possible within the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Rwanda". Mr. Mbaya Tshiakany was among the representatives of a wide range […]
Forging greater ties between the United Nations and the League of Arab States to address Middle East turmoil and working closely with their new Joint Special Representative on the crisis in Syria would be among the top priorities of the Security Council in September, the Permanent Representative of Germany, whose delegation holds the Council’s […]
The Security Council today condemned and called for an immediate halt to aerial bombardments, harbouring or otherwise supporting rebel groups, cross-border military movements and other violations of its resolution 2046 (2012) on the part of Sudan and South Sudan. In a wide-ranging statement read out by its President, Gérard Araud (France), the 15-member body […]
The following statement was issued today by the Spokesperson for UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon: The Secretary-General has taken note of the latest report by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) on the nuclear programme of the Islamic Republic of Iran. It is regrettable that Iran has yet to reach agreement with the IAEA on […]
Following are UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s remarks at the School of International Relations in Tehran on 30 August: It is a great pleasure for me to have this opportunity of addressing a very distinguished group of professors and particularly young people. I thought that most of the audience would be young people. I now […]
