Press Release

At its fifty-fourth meeting, on 8 May 2015, the Security Council Working Group on Children and Armed Conflict agreed, in connection with the examination of the first report of the Secretary-General on children and armed conflict in South Sudan (S/2014/884), to address the following message to all parties to the armed conflict in South Sudan, in particular the SPLA, the SPLA-IO and armed groups operating in their support such as the White Army, through a public statement by the Chair of the Working Group:

United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon and Madam Ban Soon-taek arrived in Paris from Rome on Tuesday afternoon, 28 April.

United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, accompanied by Madam Ban Soon-taek, departed New York on Sunday, 26 April.  They arrived in Rome at midday the following day.

United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon announced today the appointment of Mourad Wahba of Egypt as his Deputy Special Representative for the United Nations Stabilization Mission in Haiti (MINUSTAH), where he will also serve as United Nations Resident Coordinator, Humanitarian Coordinator and Resident Representative of the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP). 

United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today announced the appointment of Mbaranga Gasarabwe of Rwanda as his Deputy Special Representative of the United Nations Multidimensional Integrated Stabilization Mission in Mali (MINUSMA), where she will also serve as United Nations Resident Coordinator, Humanitarian Coordinator and Resident Representative of the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP).

Following are UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s remarks, as prepared for delivery, at the high-level panel on the commemoration of the end of the Second World War, in Gdansk, Poland, today:

Following is UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s message on the International Day of Families, observed on 15 May:

Following are UN Deputy Secretary-General Jan Eliasson’s remarks at the High-level General Assembly Thematic Debate in support of the process towards the 2016 Special Session of the General Assembly on the World Drug Problem, in New York today:

Following is the text of UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s video message to the G7 Stakeholder Conference on Climate Risk Insurance, held in Berlin today:

Following are UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s remarks at the Peace Bell ceremony, in New York today: