Press Release

Following is the text of UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s video message to the Sustainable Energy for All Advisory Board meeting, held in New York today:

Following is UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s message, as delivered by Josiane Ambiehl, Chief of the Decolonization Unit, Department of Political Affairs, for the opening session of the Caribbean Regional Seminar on the Implementation of the third International Decade for the Eradication of Colonialism:  the United Nations at 70 — taking stock of the decolonization agenda, in Managua today:

The Committee on the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People will convene the United Nations Round Table on Legal Aspects of the Question of Palestine, in The Hague from 20 to 22 May.  The theme of the Round Table is “Available mechanisms to ensure accountability for violations of international law”.

Following is UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s message, as delivered by Vladimir Ryabinin, Executive Secretary of the Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission and Assistant Director General of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, at the Inauguration of the new campus at the World Maritime University, in Malmö, Sweden, today:

Following is UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s message, as delivered by Mohamed ibn Chambas, Special Representative of the Secretary-General and Head of the United Nations Office for West Africa (UNOWA), to the Forty-Seventh Ordinary Summit of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS), in Accra today:

Following are UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s remarks at the World Education Forum “Sustainable Development Goals and Education”, in Incheon, Republic of Korea, today:

Following are UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s remarks, as prepared for delivery, at the Global Compact Network Republic of Korea, in Seoul today:

Following are UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s remarks to the Asia Leadership Forum:  New Power for Opening the Future of the Korean Peninsula, in Seoul today:

On Friday afternoon, 15 May, United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, accompanied by Madam Ban Soon-taek, travelled to the University of Maryland at College Park, where he met with a group of students from the School of Public Policy, which is led by Dean Robert Orr.

On 18 May 2015, the Security Council Committee pursuant to resolutions 1267 (1999) and 1989 (2011) concerning Al-Qaida and associated individuals and entities removed the name below from the Al-Qaida Sanctions List after concluding its consideration of the delisting requests for this name submitted through the Office of the Ombudsperson established pursuant to Security Council resolution 1904 (2009), and after considering the Comprehensive Report of the Ombudsperson on this delisting request.