Press Release

Following are UN Deputy Secretary-General Jan Eliasson’s remarks at a briefing to Member States on the Sustainable Energy for All initiative, in New York today:

An exhibition entitled Indigenous Peoples Housing and Sustainable Settlements will open with a cultural event and reception on Tuesday, 21 April, at 6:15 p.m. in the United Nations Visitors’ Lobby, marking the fourteenth session of the Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues.

Following is the text of UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s video message to the Pearl Initiative and United Nations Global Compact Regional Forum on the theme “Corporate Accountability Matters:  Business Integrity and Value Creation Beyond 2015”, held in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, today:

United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today announced the appointment of Cindy Smith of the United States as Director of the United Nations Interregional Crime and Justice Research Institute.

The following Security Council press statement was issued today by Council President Dina Kawar (Jordan):

Following is UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s message, as delivered by Janos Pasztor, Assistant Secretary-General on Climate Change, to the International Civil Society Centre reception on strategic cooperation between the United Nations and civil society organizations, in Greentree, New York today:

Following is UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s message, as delivered by the Under-Secretary-General for Communications and Public Information, Cristina Gallach, to the exhibit organized by the Russian mission on the occasion of the eightieth anniversary of the Roerich Pact (Treaty on the Protection of Artistic and Scientific Institutions and Historic Monuments), today, in New York:

Following are UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s remarks, as prepared for delivery, at the Future of Energy Summit 2015, in New York, today:

Following are UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon’s remarks at the high-level event “United Action towards Sustainable Development for All through Sport”, today, in New York:

Following is the text of UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s video message to the high-level special session on the two water Conventions during the seventh World Water Forum held in Daegu, Republic Of Korea, today: