Press Release

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

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 Jan Eliasson, Deputy Secretary-General, in Beijing today:

Following is UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s video message for the international launch of the Education for All Global Monitoring Report:

The Secretary-General has appointed a Panel of external experts to conduct an interim independent assessment of the system of administration of justice at the United Nations.  The establishment of the Panel responds to a request by the General Assembly in its resolution 69/203 of 18 December 2014.

Following is UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s opening statement at the General Assembly informal interactive hearing for the Third International Conference on Financing for Development, in New York today:

Governments at the United Nations hammering out an agreement on financing a new global development push are hearing from decision makers with a broad understanding of “return on investment”.

On 7 April 2015, the Security Council Committee pursuant to resolutions 1267 (1999) and 1989 (2011) approved the addition of the entry specified below to 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:

The members of the Security Council condemned in the strongest terms the recent terrorist attacks perpetrated by Boko Haram in north-east Nigeria and Chad including the deadly attacks in Kwajafa in Borno State, Nigeria, on 5 April 2015 and in Tchoukou Telia, Chad, on 3 April 2015.

Following are UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s remarks at the solemn commemoration of the International Day of Reflection on the Genocide in Rwanda, in New York today: