Ban Ki-moon

Two Bulgarian women - UNESCO Director-General Irina Bokova and European Commission Vice-President Kristalina Georgieva, are among the possible nominees for succeeding Ban Ki-moon as the next UN Secretary-General.

This is suggested by a recent article of The New York Times (NYT) entitled "After 70 Years of Men, Some Say It Is 'High Time' a Woman Led the UN".

Implementation of Security Council Resolution 1244 "will remain at the core of the UN policy toward Kosovo."

This is what Serbian Foreign Minister Ivica Dacic and United Nations (UN) Secretary General Ban Ki-moon agreed on Saturday, according to Tanjug.

UN peacekeepers in the Central African Republic face allegations of sexual abuse in 13 cases, including nine that involve underage victims as young as 11, an official said on Aug. 20.

UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has appointed Zahir Tanin as new chief of the UN Interim Administration Mission in Kosovo (UNMIK).

Tanin is Afghanistan's permanent representative to the United Nations.

Russia believes that the next United Nations Secretary General should be a representative of the Eastern European group of countries, the Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov has said.

A senior United Nations official for Cyprus held meetings in Ankara with Turkish officials on Aug. 13 amid cautious optimism about a possible deal to reunify the island.

The U.N. Security Council is expected to unanimously approve a resolution on August 7 aimed at identifying those responsible for using chlorine and other chemical weapons in attacks in Syria that have killed and injured a growing number of civilians.

The United States and Russia have reached agreement on a draft U.N. resolution aimed at identifying those behind chemical weapons attacks in Syria in order to bring them to justice, a U.S. official said on August 6. 

Croatia's Foreign Minister Vesna Pusic has confirmed that she will run for UN Secretary-General.

According to British daily The Independent, Pusic has a good chance of being elected to succeed Ban Ki-moon, whose term in office as UN Secretary-General expires in December 2016.

UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon will continue to act in accordance with UN Security Council Resolution 1244, said Eri Kaneko, from Ban's spokesperson's office.

She at the same time told Tanjug that ""matters of UNESCO membership are decided by UNESCO’s General Conference."