Press Release

The Security Council Committee established pursuant to resolution 1521 (2003) concerning Liberia decided on 6 April 2015 to delist the following individual from its Sanctions List.

United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon arrived in Kuwait late in the afternoon of 30 March from Baghdad to attend the Third Humanitarian Pledging Conference for Syria.

Following is UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s message for the International Day of Reflection on the Genocide in Rwanda, observed on 7 April:

Following is UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s message for the International Day of Sport for Development and Peace, observed today:

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):

United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon arrived in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt, from New York, having transited via Istanbul, on Saturday morning, 28 March, to attend the twenty-sixth Summit of the League of Arab States.

United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today announced the appointment of a High-level Panel on the Global Response to Health Crises.

United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon paid a previously unannounced visit to Iraq on Monday, 30 March.  He arrived from Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt, early in the day, and was greeted at Baghdad International Airport by Muhammad Jawad Al-Doraky, Undersecretary for Legal Affairs and Multilateral Relations of Iraq.

Following is UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s message, delivered by his wife, Ban Soon-taek, to a panel discussion on Autism Awareness Day co-organized by the Permanent Missions of Bangladesh, India, Nigeria, Qatar, the Republic of Korea and the United States, as well as the organization Autism Speaks, in New York today: