Press Release

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:

The new Permanent Observer for the International Organization for Migration (IOM) to the United Nations, Ashraf El Nour, today presented his letter of appointment to UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon.

The new Permanent Representative of New Zealand to the United Nations, Gerard van Bohemen, presented his credentials to UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today.

The new Permanent Representative of Côte d'Ivoire to the United Nations, Claude Stanislas Bouah-Kamon, presented his credentials to UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today.

The new Permanent Representative of Montenegro to the United Nations, Željko Perović, presented his credentials to UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today.

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

United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today announced the appointment of Mamadou Diallo of Guinea as the Deputy Special Representative for the United Nations Stabilization Mission in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (MONUSCO), where he will also serve as United Nations Resident Coordinator, Humanitarian Coordinator and Resident Representative of the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP).

Following is the text of UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s video message for the International Centre for Not-for-Profit Law (ICNL) Global Forum, taking place in Stockholm from 10 to 12 May: