Press Release

Following is UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s “Freedom Lecture”, as prepared for delivery, at Leiden University, 28 August:

Following are UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s remarks at the opening of the Ministerial Conference on the Peaceful Settlement of Disputes, as prepared for delivery, in The Hague, 28 August:

Following are UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s remarks at the ceremony marking the centennial of the Peace Palace, in The Hague, 28 August:

Following is UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s message for the fourth International Day against Nuclear Tests, to be observed on 29 August:

United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon announced today the appointment of Major General Imam Edy Mulyono of Indonesia as Force Commander of the United Nations Mission for the Referendum in Western Sahara.

Following is the text of UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s video message to the twenty-seventh annual conference of the International Union for the Scientific Study of Population, in Busan, Republic of Korea, on 26 August:

United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon announced today the appointment of Lieutenant General Maqsood Ahmed of Pakistan as the Military Adviser for Peacekeeping Operations, replacing Senegal’s Lieutenant General Babacar Gaye, whose tour of duty ended on 8 July.

On 26 August 2013, the Security Council Committee pursuant to resolutions 1267 (1999) and 1989 (2011) approved the deletion (delisting) of the entry specified below from the Al-Qaida Sanctions List. The assets freeze, travel ban and arms embargo set out in paragraph 1 of Security Council resolution 2083 (2012) therefore no longer apply to the following entry:

The 2013 United Nations Programme of Fellowships on Disarmament starts today in Geneva with the participation of young diplomats from 25 Member States, and will last nine weeks.

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