Press Release

United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today announced the appointment of Omar Abdi, a Canadian national born in Somalia, as Deputy Executive Director of the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF).

Following are UN Deputy Secretary-General Jan Eliasson’s remarks at the presentation of the Secretary-General’s guidance note on reparations for conflict-related sexual violence, today in New York:

United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon announced today the appointment of Catherine Pollard of Guyana as Assistant Secretary-General for General Assembly and Conference Management.

The following joint statement by UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon and United States Secretary of State John Kerry was issued today:

On 30 July 2014, the Security Council Committee established pursuant to resolution 1988 (2011) approved the addition of the individuals specified below to the Committee’s List (the 1988 List) of individuals and entities subject to the assets freeze, travel ban and arms embargo set out in paragraph 1 of Security Council resolution 2160 (2014):

On 30 July 2014, the Security Council Committee established pursuant to resolution 1988 (2011) approved the addition of the individuals specified below to the Committee’s List (the 1988 List) of individuals and entities subject to the assets freeze, travel ban and arms embargo set out in paragraph 1 of Security Council resolution 2160 (2014):

Following is the text of a lecture by UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon at the Inter-American Court of Human Rights, titled “Costa Rica and the United Nations: Challenges and Opportunities in the 21st Century”, in San José today:

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, as delivered by Shun-ichi Murata, Deputy Executive Director, Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific, to the forty-fifth Pacific Islands Forum, in Palau, today:

United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today announced the appointment of Major General Martin Chomu Tumenta (Cameroon) as the Force Commander of the United Nations Multidimensional Integrated Stabilization Mission in the Central African Republic.