Press Release

Following is UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s message, as delivered by Said Djinnit, Special Representative of the Secretary-General for West Africa, to the High-level West Africa Coast Initiative Donor Conference, in New York today:

Following are UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s remarks, as prepared for delivery, at the Lunch on Maternal and Child Health, hosted by the Chinese People’s Association for Friendship with Foreign Countries, the National Health and Family Planning Commission, in Shanghai today:

Following are UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s remarks at Fudan University, in Shanghai today:

On 22 May 2014, the Security Council’s Al-Qaida Sanctions Committee approved the addition of Boko Haram to its list of individuals and entities subject to the targeted financial sanctions and the arms embargo set out in paragraph 1 of Security Council resolution 2083 (2012), adopted under Chapter VII of the Charter of the United Nations.

Following are UN Deputy Secretary-General Jan Eliasson’s remarks to the Security Council, as delivered on behalf of the Secretary-General, in New York today:

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

Following is UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s message for the International Day of United Nations Peacekeepers, to be observed on 29 May:

Following is UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s message for the International Day to End Obstetric Fistula, to be observed on 23 May:

Following is UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s message for the International Day for Biological Diversity, to be observed on 22 May: