Press Release

Following are UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s remarks to the Security Council’s open debate on small arms and light weapons, held in New York on 13 May:

During its informal consultations on 8 May 2015, the Security Council Committee established pursuant to resolution 2206 (2015) concerning South Sudan was briefed by Leila Zerrougui, Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Children and Armed Conflict, and Zainab Hawa Bangura, Special Representative of the Secretary-General on Sexual Violence in Conflict.

Following is UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s message for World Telecommunication and Information Society Day, observed on 17 May:

Following is UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s message for the World Taekwondo Championships, held in Chelyabinsk, Russian Federation, 12 to 18 May:

The following Security Council press statement was issued today by Council President Raimonda Murmokaitė (Lithuania):

United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon flew on Friday, 8 May, from Kyiv, Ukraine, to Moscow, Russian Federation, to attend the celebration of “Victory Day”, marking the end of the Second World War.

United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon flew on Friday, 8 May, from Gdansk, Poland, to Kyiv, Ukraine, to attend the commemorations for the seventieth anniversary of the end of the Second World War.

United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon flew on Wednesday, 6 May, from New York to Gdansk, Poland, to attend the commemorations for the seventieth anniversary of the end of the Second World War.

Following is UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s message, as delivered by Nickolay Mladenov, Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process, to the fifth Global Forum for Combating Anti-Semitism, in Jerusalem today:

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