Press Release

Following is UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s message on International Volunteer Day, to be observed on 5 December:

The following Security Council press statement was issued today by Council President Gérard Araud (France):

On 4 December 2013, 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.

United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon and experts in the field of genocide prevention and international justice will mark the sixty-fifth anniversary of the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide on 9 December.

The Security Council Committee established pursuant to resolution 1521 (2003) concerning Liberia decided on 29 November 2013 to delist the following individual from the list of individuals subject to the travel restrictions imposed by paragraph 4 (a) of resolution 1521 (2003) (the travel ban list). The measures no longer apply to this individual.

Following are UN Secretary-General Ban Ki‑moon’s closing remarks at the fifteenth session of the General Conference of the United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO), in Lima on 2 December:

Following is UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s message, as delivered by Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) Executive Director Michel Sidibé, to the fourth Replenishment of the Global Fund event, held in Washington, D.C., from 2 to 3 December:

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

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

Following are UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s opening remarks at the fifteenth session of the General Conference of the United Nations Industrial Development Organization, in Lima, Peru, 2 December: