Press Release

NEW YORK, 28 February (Office for Disarmament Affairs) — A six-day initiative will be held from 3 March with a view to bolstering security and peacebuilding in Côte d’Ivoire and improving the management of stockpiles of small arms and light weapons as well as ammunition, the United Nations Regional Centre for Peace and Disarmament in Africa (UNREC) announced today.

Following are UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s remarks at the launch of Kwibuka20 in New York today:

Following is UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s message, as delivered by. Babatunde Osotimehin, Executive Director of the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA), at an event marking the centenary of the amalgamation of Nigeria, in Abuja today:

At its forty-third meeting, on 15 February 2014, the Security Council Working Group on Children and Armed Conflict agreed, in connection with the examination of the third report of the Secretary-General on children and armed conflict in the Philippines (document S/2013/419), to address the following message to all parties to the armed conflict in the Philippines mentioned in the report of the Secretary-General through a public statement by its Chair:

The following Security Council press statement was issued today by Council President Raimonda Murmokaitė ( Lithuania):

Following is UN Deputy Secretary-General Jan Eliasson’s keynote address, as prepared for delivery, at a panel discussion on “The rule of law, peace and security, human rights and development”, held at Headquarters today as a follow-up to the Declaration of the High-level Meeting of the General Assembly on the Rule of Law at the National and International Levels:

Following are UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s remarks, as delivered, at screening of the film 12 Years a Slave in New York today:

Following are UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s remarks, at the Partners in Population and Development and “Every woman, every child” dinner in New York, 24 February:

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 World Wildlife Day, to be observed on 3 March: