Press Release

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

Following is UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s message for the International Day of United Nations Peacekeepers, observed on 29 May:

On 22 May 2015, the Security Council Committee pursuant to resolutions 1267 (1999) and 1989 (2011) enacted the amendments specified with underline in the entry below on its Al-Qaida Sanctions List of individuals and entities subject to the assets freeze, travel ban and arms embargo set out in paragraph 1 of Security Council resolution 2161 (2014) adopted under Chapter VII of the Charter of the United Nations.

Following is UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s message for the International Day to End Obstetric Fistula, observed on 23 May:

Following is UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s message for the International Day for Biological Diversity, observed 22 May:

Following is the text of UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s video message to the Jeju Forum for Peace and Prosperity in Jeju, Republic of Korea, today:

The following announcement was made today by UN Secretary-General Ban Ki‑moon:

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

Following are UN Deputy Secretary-General Jan Eliasson’s remarks at the opening of the Global Energy Ministerial Meeting, held in New York today:

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