Africa

The following Security Council press statement was issued today by Council President José Filipe Moraes Cabral (Portugal):

The following statement was issued today by the Spokesperson for UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon:

The following Security Council press statement on Liberia was issued today by Council President U. Joy Ogwu (Nigeria):

The following statement by UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon was issued on 23 October:

The following statement was issued on 23 October by the Spokesperson for UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon:

The United Nations Office for Disarmament Affairs and the Permanent Mission of Austria to the United Nations held today a special event entitled “Enhancing Small Arms Control in Central Africa — The Kinshasa Convention” at the Permanent Mission of Austria. The event — from 1 p.m. to 2:45 p.m. at the Permanent Mission of Austria to the United Nations — was to promote this new subregional instrument to control and fight the illicit proliferation of small arms and light weapons in Central Africa.

The following statement by UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon was issued today:

This is the text of remarks by UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon in the Security Council today, at the outset of the Council’s meeting on “Peace and Security in Africa: Piracy in the Gulf of Guinea”:

The following Security Council press statement was issued today by Council President U. Joy Ogwu (Nigeria):

Following are the remarks by UN Deputy Secretary-General Asha-Rose Migiro at the World Knowledge Forum, in Seoul, Republic of Korea, today, 12 October: