Press Release

Following is UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s message for World Cities Day, to be observed on 31 October:

Following is UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s message to the Counter-Piracy Conference, “Countering Maritime Piracy: Securing State Recovery, Sustaining Momentum at Sea, Confronting Instability on Land”, delivered by Haile Menkerios, Special Representative of the Secretary-General to the African Union, in Dubai, United Arab Emirates today:

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:

On 28 October 2014, the Security Council Committee pursuant to resolutions 1267 (1999) and 1989 (2011) concerning Al-Qaida and associated individuals and entities removed the name below from the Al-Qaida Sanctions List after concluding its consideration of the de-listing requests for this name submitted through the Office of the Ombudsperson established pursuant to Security Council resolution 1904 (2009), and after considering the Comprehensive Report of the Ombudsperson on this de-listing request.

Following is the text of UN Secretary-General Ban Ki‑moon’s video message to the International Conference on the Implementation of Regional Projects in the Aral Sea Basin, held 28-29 October in Urgench, Uzbekistan:

Following is the text of UN Secretary-General Ban Ki‑moon’s video message to the Global Forum on Youth Policies, in Baku, Azerbaijan on 28 October:

Having arrived in Israel from Egypt on Sunday, 12 October, United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon travelled by car from Jerusalem to Ramallah on Monday morning, 13 October.

United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon arrived in Israel from Egypt on Sunday evening, 12 October.

United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon arrived in Cairo from Tripoli, Libya, late on Saturday evening, 11 October.