Security Council

KRAGUJEVAC - It has once again become evident that some precedents apply to Serbia, Serbian government minister Aleksandar Vulin said after Kosovo was admitted to UEFA on Tuesday, adding that he expects the UN Security Council to say whether its Resolution 1244 on Kosovo is still valid.

The UN Security Council echoed international condemnation April 24 of a submarine-launched ballistic missile (SLBM) test by North Korea, while US President Barack Obama dismissed Pyongyang's offer of a nuclear moratorium.    

Turkey freezes assets of Yemeni ex-president Ali Abdullah Saleh, while the U.N.-backed peace talks to solve the armed clashes in Yemen, which were scheduled to start on April 21 after an initial postponement, was postponed once again. 

Turkey has frozen the assets of former Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh, in line with a decision by the UN Security Council, the government said in its Official Gazette on April 21. 

All of Saleh's assets in Turkish banks and other financial institutions, including safes, were frozen, it said. 

Equal opportunities for men and women and the integration of migrants should be at the core of the United Nations' efforts during the next Secretary General's term of office, Irina Bokova, the Bulgarian UN top job candidate, said on Tuesday.

Former Macedonian foreign minister and the U.N. General Assembly's 62nd president, Srgjan Kerim, has requested Turkey's support for his candidacy to succeed Ban Ki-moon as U.N. secretary general.

Eight candidates to take over as the next UN Secretary General are due to attend a first-of-a-kind informal hearing starting April 12, Tuesday.

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry and G7 foreign ministers on April 11 called for a "world without nuclear weapons," citing North Korea's saber-rattling as a key challenge to achieving that goal.

For the first time in the United Nations' 70-year history, candidates vying to become secretary-general will make their pitch for the job to world governments in hearings beginning next week.

The United States and three allies called for a Security Council meeting to respond to Iran's recent ballistic missile tests which they say were carried out in defiance of a U.N. resolution.