Following is a transcript of UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s press conference on the United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development (Rio+20), held in New York, 6 June: The United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development is just 14 days away. Rio+20 is a once-in-a-generation opportunity to make real progress towards the sustainable economy of the future. It […]
Concluding a protracted voting process, States parties to the 1982 United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea today elected Muhammad Arshad of Pakistan as a member of the Commission on the Limits of the Continental Shelf following eight rounds of voting that took place over two days. The election of Mr. Arshad fills […]
Presidents, Prosecutors Say Challenges Remain to Completion by December 2014, Including Appeals, Staff Attrition, Recent Start to Trials of Long-Time Fugitives The Presidents and Prosecutors of the International Tribunals on serious crimes committed during the Balkan wars of the 1990s and the 1994 Rwanda genocide told the Security Council today that they had recently made […]
Plan Not Being Implemented, All-out Civil War Possible, Says Special Envoy; Syria Says Situation ?Truly Unfortunate?, but Today?s Meeting Politically Motivated In the wake of what United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon described as yet another ?shocking and sickening? massacre of civilians in Syria, senior United Nations and Arab League officials today joined forces ?at a […]
Following is UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon?s message to the Global Counter-Terrorism Forum, delivered by Michael Smith, Director, United Nations Counter-Terrorism Committee Executive Directorate, in Istanbul, 7 June: I congratulate the Governments of the United States and Turkey, as co-chairs of the Global Counter-Terrorism Forum, for organizing this meeting. Since its launch in September last year in […]
Submissions Can Cost Coastal States Hundreds of Millions of Dollars; Delays in Handling Them Create Uncertainty for All States, Says Commission Chair With the critical importance of submissions by coastal States to the Commission on the Limits of Continental Shelf, and their cost of hundreds of thousands of dollars to hundreds of millions to […]
ICC Prosecutor Says Sudan?s Failure ?Direct Challenge? to Council Authority; Sudan: Court Referral Not Legitimate, Government Will Focus on Peace Process The world?s fight against impunity for war crimes, crimes against humanity and genocide was weakened by Sudan?s failure to render President Omer Hassan A. al-Bashir and three other Sudanese to the International Criminal […]
Following is UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s message for World Ocean’s Day, observed on 8 June: This year’s World Oceans Day falls as the international community marks an important milestone: the thirtieth anniversary of the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea. When the Convention opened for signature on 10 December 1982, it was rightly characterized […]
On 4 June 2012, the Security Council Committee pursuant to resolutions 1267 (1999) and 1989 (2011) approved the deletion (de-listing) of the entry specified below from the Al-Qaida Sanctions List. The assets freeze, travel ban and arms embargo set out in paragraph 1 of Security Council resolution 1989 (2011) therefore no longer apply to […]
The following statement was issued on 4 June by the Spokesperson for UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon: The Secretary-General has called on all concerned in the Maldives to resolve the country’s political crisis peacefully, through a national process and on the basis of dialogue and consensus. He welcomes, in this context, the acceptance by the […]
