Press Release

Following is the text of UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s video message on the World Day against the Death Penalty, to be observed 9 October:

Following are UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s remarks at an event on the Ebola epidemic, in Washington, D.C., today:

Following is UN Secretary-General Ban Ki‑moon’s message for the International Day for Disaster Reduction, to be observed on 13 October:

Following is UN Secretary-General Ban Ki‑moon’s message on the occasion of the “Music for Peace” event, delivered by Maher Nasser, Acting Head, Department Of Public Information, in New York today:

United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today announced the appointments of Marcel Rudasingwa of Rwanda as Ebola Crisis Manager for Guinea, Peter Jan Graaff of the Netherlands as Ebola Crisis Manager for Liberia and Amadu Kamara of the United States as Ebola Crisis Manager for Sierra Leone.

Following is UN Secretary-General Ban Ki‑moon’s message on the International Day of the Girl Child, to be observed 11 October:

On 5 September 2014, United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki‑moon designated Wu Hongbo, Under-Secretary-General for Economic and Social Affairs, as the Secretary-General for the third International Conference on Financing for Development.

On 26 September 2014, the Security Council Committee established pursuant to resolution 1970 (2011) concerning Libya updated the entries specified below to its List of Individuals and Entities subject to the travel ban and asset freeze.

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

Following is UN Secretary-General Ban Ki‑moon’s message for World Mental Health Day, to be observed on 10 October: