Press Release

United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon and Madam Ban Soon-taek travelled to Madrid to participate in the commemoration of the sixtieth anniversary of Spain’s membership in the United Nations.

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

Following is UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s message, as delivered by Hiroute Guebre Sellassie, Special Envoy of the Secretary-General for the Sahel, to the fourth meeting of the Ministerial Coordination Platform of Sahel Strategies, in Bamako today:

Following is UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s message, as delivered by Shamshad Akhtar, Executive Secretary, United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP), to the International Forum on Energy Transitions, in Suzhou City today:

The Outreach Division of the Department of Public Information will host a three-day Model United Nations workshop on 6, 7 and 9 November 2015 at United Nations Headquarters in New York.  Students who have participated in a Model United Nations conference at the high school or university level, as well as students and advisers who have had a leadership role in organizing a conference, will take part.  More than 130 students from 30 countries will attend.

Following is the text of UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s video message to the Warsaw Dialogue for Democracy, held in Warsaw from 22 to 24 October:

Between 27 and 29 October, the Governments of Morocco and Spain conducted “Gate to Africa”, a joint exercise designed to strengthen their national capabilities on security of radioactive material in transport, in this case, radioactive sources used for cancer therapy, by sea.

Following is UN Deputy Secretary-General Jan Eliasson’s remarks at the workshop “Fast-Tracking the End of the Aids Epidemic: Celebrating Success, Strengthening Resolve”, in Washington, D.C., today:

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

Following are UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s remarks, as prepared for delivery, at the “UN70: Moments and Milestones” event, in New York on 4 November: