Press Release

United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today announced the appointment of Antonio Vigilante of Italy as his Deputy Special Representative for Recovery and Governance in the United Nations Mission in Liberia.

The Bureau of the Committee on the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People issued the following statement today:

The United Nations Office for Disarmament Affairs through its Regional Centre for Peace and Disarmament in Africa will convene a workshop on 5 and 6 June in Lomé, Togo, to assist Portuguese-speaking States in preparing their initial reports pursuant to Security Council resolution 1540 (2004) on the non-proliferation of weapons of mass destruction by non-State actors.

On 3 June 2013, the Arms Trade Treaty was opened for signature in New York. Since then, 118 States have signed this historic treaty that sets common international standards for the regulation of the global arms trade.

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of China, the China Arms Control and Disarmament Association, and the United Nations Office for Disarmament Affairs, through its Regional Centre for Peace and Disarmament in Asia and the Pacific, are jointly organizing an international workshop on information and cybersecurity in Beijing, on 5 and 6 June.

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 annual meeting of the Association of Former International Civil Servants, in New York today:

Following are UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s remarks at the launch of the video campaign on ending sexual violence through gender equality, in New York, 3 June:

Following are UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s remarks at the “Mini-Concert” by Midori, in New York, 3 June:

Following is UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s message for World Environment Day, to be observed on 5 June: