Press Release

United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon announced today the appointment of Juan Somavía of Chile, former Director-General of the International Labour Organization (ILO), as his Special Adviser on Interregional Policy Cooperation.

The Bureau of the Committee on the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People issued the following statement today, 7 November:

Following are UN Deputy Secretary-General Jan Eliasson’s remarks at the election of the new Chair of the Group of 77, in New York on 7 November:

Following are UN Deputy Secretary-General Jan Eliasson’s remarks at the Pledging Conference for the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia (ECCC), in New York on 7 November:

Following is the text of UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s video message to the United Nations Association of the United States-United Nations Foundation Global Leadership Awards Dinner, in New York, 6 November:

Following are UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s remarks at a joint meeting with the President, Prime Minister and Cabinet members of Niger, in Niamey, 6 November:

Following are UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s remarks to the National Assembly of Niger, in Niamey, 6 November:

Following is UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s message to the meeting of the Black Sea Universities Network, in Simferopol, Ukraine, on 6 November:

Following are UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s remarks, as prepared for delivery, at the launch of the call to action on demographic issues in the Sahel region, in Niamey, Niger, 6 November:

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