Ban Ki-moon

Iran's supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei demanded Saudi Arabia apologise on Sept. 27 for a stampede that killed nearly 770 pilgrims at the hajj, at least 144 of them Iranians.

Greek PM Alexis Tsipras will be on a nearly week-long visit to the United States next week, heading first to New York City for the annual UN General Assembly and the inevitable “elbow-running” with international leaders.

Russian President Vladimir Putin and his US counterpart Barack Obama will meet on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly session which will be held on September 28.

The information was confirmed both by Russian and US officials on Thursday, TASS news agency reports.

Prime Minister Ahmet Davuto?lu will attend a counterterrorism summit hosted by U.S. President Barack Obama in New York on Sept. 29 on the sidelines a general assembly meeting marking the 70th anniversary of the United Nations.

Davuto?lu will send letters to world leaders before the summit, where he will call on other nations to shoulder part of the responsibility for Syrian refugees.

The UN Security Council appealed for calm and restraint Sept. 17 after three days of clashes this week at Jerusalem's Al-Aqsa mosque compound between Israeli police and Muslim protesters.

In a unanimous declaration, the 15-member panel also expressed its "grave concern" and called for maintaining the rules governing the sensitive site seen as holy by both Muslims and Jews.    

If Macedonia's government has its own way, Srgjan Kerim will replace Ban Ki-moon as the next UN Secretary General next year.

UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said on Wednesday he was shocked to see how refugees were treated at Hungary's border with Serbia.

Ban "underscored it is not acceptable," according to Tanjug.

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdo?an has called on the United Nations to act against Israel?s ?breach? of the sanctity of the al-Aqsa Mosque in east Jerusalem, a presidential source said late Sept. 14.

For the first time the next United Nations Secretary General should be a representative of the group of eastern European countries in the world organization, Russia's envoy to the UN Vitaly Churkin has said.

There are already "several decent potential candidates from eastern Europe", Churkin said in an interview with TASS.

The United Nations on Sept. 10 said peace talks aimed at ending the conflict in Yemen are set to resume next week in the region and urged all parties to participate "in good faith."