Press Release

Following is UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s message for the United Nations Day for South-South Cooperation, observed 12 September:

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

Following are UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s remarks to the General Assembly’s informal interactive dialogue on “A vital and enduring commitment:  Implementing the responsibility to protect”, in New York today:

Following are UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s remarks for the tenth meeting of the Implementation Follow-Up Commission of the Doha Document for Peace in Darfur, delivered by Abioudun Oluremi Bashua, African Union-United Nations Acting Joint Special Representative for Darfur, in Doha, Qatar, today:

The International Day against Nuclear Tests will be observed on 10 September at United Nations Headquarters.  This year’s official opening ceremony, marked by an informal meeting, will be convened by the President of the sixty-ninth session of the General Assembly, Sam Kutesa, and organized in cooperation with the Permanent Mission of the Republic of Kazakhstan.

The new Permanent Representative of Austria, Jan Kickert, presented his credentials to UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today.

The new Permanent Representative of Switzerland to the United Nations, Jürg Lauber, presented his credentials to UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today.

The new Permanent Representative of Niger to the United Nations, Abdallah Wafy, today presented his credentials to UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon.

The new Permanent Representative of Sudan to the United Nations, Omer Dahab Fadl Mohamed, presented his credentials to UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today.

Following is the text of UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s video message for the World Forestry Congress, in Durban, South Africa, today: