Ban Ki-moon

After more than 50 ratifications. United Nations officials welcomed the entry into force of the Arms Trade Treaty (ATT) on December 24, 2014, hailing it as a new chapter in collective efforts to bring responsibility, accountabUity and transparency to the global arms trade. From now on, the States Parties to this important treaty will have a legal obligation to apply the highest common standards to their international transfers of weapons and ammunition, Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said. ° ... 

In a meeting opened by UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon and UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay, the UN Security Council unanimously adopted Resolution 2171 on conflict prevention. The Security Council expressed its commitment to prevent armed conflict as part of its primary responsibility to maintain international peace and security, and reaffirmed fhat each state has the responsibility to protect its population from genocide, war crimes, ethnic cleansing, and crimes against humanity. 

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Even in the wake of the official Kosovar declaration of independence, Serbian leadership maintained that such independence violated Serbia s sovereignty and territorial integrity. UNMIK News Coverage (2008) Ban Ki-moon urges Restraint by All Sides After Kosovo Declared Independence. Available at www.unmikonline. org/archives/news02 08full.htm (accessed Apr. 7, 2012). 

A statement by the UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon on 16 September, after an investigation of the attack sites and survivors by a UN inspection team said that there was clear and convincing evidence that sarin was used during the attack and that many hundreds of people were killed . The inspection team said they had found samples of sarin on the remains of rockets found on the area and that 85 % of blood samples tested from 50 survivors interviewed showed positive for sarin. Details of what tests were carried out were not provided, but red-cell acetylcholinesterase levels, the best indicator of whether exposure to an anticholinesterase has taken place, have not been published at the time of writing. 

Minister Li Zhaoxing held phone talks with U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, Japanese Foreign Minister Aso Taro, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade of the Republic of Korea Ban Ki-Moon and Australian Foreign Minister Alexander Downer respectively. Countries across the world joined in the protest, and the United Nations Security Council met for an emergency meeting to discuss the missile tests. 

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