Press Release

On 7 May 2014, the Security Council Committee pursuant to resolutions 751 (1992) and 1907 (2009) concerning Somalia and Eritrea adopted its first implementation assistance notice entitled “Recommendations on interdiction of charcoal from Somalia by Member States pursuant to Security Council resolutions 2036 (2012), 2060 (2012) and 2111 (2013)”.

Following are UN Deputy Secretary-General Jan Eliasson’s remarks to the open debate of the Security Council on non-proliferation, in New York today:

The following statement was issued today by the Spokesman for the Secretary General:

Following is UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s message, as delivered by Ahmad Alhendawi, Secretary-General’s Envoy on Youth, to the World Conference on Youth 2014, in Colombo today:

Following is the text of UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s video message for the launch of the Diplomatic Academy of the Caribbean in St. Augustine, Trinidad and Tobago, on 6 May 2014:

Following is UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s message to the eleventh Asia Media Summit, taking place in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, from 6 to 8 May:

A decade after the adoption of Security Council resolution 1540 (2004),Governments around the world are working hard to implement its requirements, with Member States having enacted a large number of relevant laws and deployed a wide range of appropriate measures.

The twenty-eighth session of the United Nations Group of Experts on Geographical Names concluded on 2 May at United Nations Headquarters in New York.

Following are UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s remarks at the closing plenary of the “Abu Dhabi Ascent”, in Abu Dhabi today:

Following is UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s message, delivered by Peter Grohman, United Nations Resident Coordinator in Bahrain, to the Conference on Civilizations in the Service of Humanity, in Manama today: