Press Release

Following are UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s remarks to the General Assembly High-Level Dialogue on International Migration and Development, in New York on 3 October:

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 remarks on the International Day of Non-Violence on 2 October:

During the course of the general debate at United Nations Headquarters over the past week, 59 Member States took 113 treaty actions at the annual Treaty Event.

Following are UN Deputy Secretary-General Jan Eliasson’s remarks at a press conference on the High-level Dialogue on International Migration and Development, in New York on 2 October:

The Permanent Representative of Sri Lanka to the United Nations, Palitha T.B. Kohona, was elected Chair of the Sixth Committee (Legal) on 1 October 2013.

Janne Taalas, Deputy Permanent Representative of Finland to the United Nations, was elected Chair of the Fifth Committee (Administrative and Budgetary) on 1 October 2013.

Carlos Enrique García González was elected Chair of the Fourth Committee (Special Political and Decolonization) on 1 October.

Stephan Tafrov (Bulgaria) was elected Chair of the Third Committee (Social, Humanitarian and Cultural) on 1 October.

Abdou Salam Diallo was elected Chair of the Second Committee (Economic and Financial) on 1 October.