Press Release

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

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

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

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

United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon arrived in Riyadh from New York on Saturday evening, 7 February.  Soon after his arrival, the Secretary-General and his delegation attended a dinner with United Nations staff working in Saudi Arabia.

Following is UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s message for the World Day of Social Justice, to be observed on 20 February:

Following is UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s message, as delivered by Jens Toyberg-Frandzen, Interim Assistant Secretary-General for Political Affairs, to the opening of the 2015 session of the Special Committee on Decolonization, in New York today:

Following are UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s remarks at a summit on violent extremism, in Washington, D.C., today:

On 19 February 2015, the Security Council Committee pursuant to resolutions 1267 (1999) and 1989 (2011) enacted the amendments specified with underline and strikethrough in the entry below on 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.

Following are UN Deputy Secretary-General Jan Eliasson’s remarks at the launch of Natural Resources and Conflict:  A Guide for Mediation Practitioners, in New York today: