Press Release

United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon announced today the appointment of Staffan de Mistura as his Special Envoy for Syria. The Secretary-General takes this opportunity to reiterate his deepest gratitude to Lakhdar Brahimi for his concerted efforts and contributions to the search for peace in Syria.

Following is UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s message, as delivered by Oscar Fernández-Taranco, Assistant Secretary-General for Political Affairs, to the Special Meeting of the Committee on the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People to Commemorate the 10th Anniversary of the Advisory Opinion of the International Court of Justice on the Legal Consequences of the Construction of a Wall in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, in New York, today:

United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has appointed Christian Friis Bach of Denmark as the next Executive Secretary of the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (ECE).

The following Security Council press statement was issued today by Council President Eugène-Richard Gasana (Rwanda):

The United Nations Academic Impact (UNAI), in partnership with the United States-based Council on Foreign Relations, will host a discussion on fracking on 16 July at 1:15 p.m. in Conference Room 4 of the North Lawn Building.

Following are UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s remarks to the General Assembly commemoration marking the 100th anniversary of the outbreak of the First World War:

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:

Following is UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s message to the meeting of the Ethics Network of Multilateral Organizations, taking place in Copenhagen from 8 to 11 July:

Following is UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s message for World Population Day, observed on 11 July: