Press Release

Following is UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s message for the International Day of Happiness, to be observed on 20 March:

The Commission on the Limits of the Continental Shelf held its thirty-fourth session at United Nations Headquarters from 27 January to 14 March 2014. Besides the two weeks of plenary meetings (10 to 14 February and 10 to 14 March), the Commission, working through its subcommissions, devoted five weeks to the technical examination of submissions at the Geographic Information Systems laboratories and other technical facilities of the Division.

The following Security Council press statement was issued today by Council President Sylvie Lucas (Luxembourg):

Following are UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s remarks, as prepared for delivery, at the Asia Week New York Reception, Metropolitan Museum of Art, in New York today:

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

Following is the text of UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s video message for the 130th Assembly of the Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU), taking place in Geneva from 16 to 20 March:

The following Security Council press statement was issued today by Council President Sylvie Lucas (Luxembourg):

The Government of Gabon and the United Nations Office for Disarmament Affairs (UNODA) will host a workshop in Libreville 20-21 March to help French-speaking States in preparing their initial reports pursuant to Security Council resolutions concerning the non-proliferation of weapons of mass destruction to non-State actors.

On 14 March 2014, the Security Council Committee pursuant to resolutions 1267 (1999) and 1989 (2011) concerning Al-Qaida and associated individuals and entities removed the name of the individual below from the Al-Qaida Sanctions List.