Press Release

Following is UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s message to the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Ceremony, as delivered by Noeleen Heyzer, Executive Secretary, United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific, 6 August:

On 5 August 2013, the Security Council Committee pursuant to resolutions 1267 (1999) and 1989 (2011) approved the amendments specified with underline and strikethrough in the entries below on its Al-Qaida Sanctions List of individuals and entities subject to the assets freeze, travel ban and arms embargo set out in paragraph 1 of Security Council resolution 2083 (2012) adopted under Chapter VII of the Charter of the United Nations.

Following are UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s opening remarks, as prepared for delivery, to the Global Interactive Dialogue on United Nations Youth Initiatives, in New York, 5 August:

The following Security Council press statement was issued today by Council President María Cristina Perceval (Argentina):

Samantha Power, the new Permanent Representative of the United States to the United Nations, presented her credentials to UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today.

Karel J. G. van Oosterom, the new Permanent Representative of the Netherlands to the United Nations, presented his credentials to UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today.

Ib Petersen, the new Permanent Representative of Denmark to the United Nations, presented his credentials to UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today.

The new Permanent Representative of Croatia to the United Nations, Vladimir Drobnjak, today presented his credentials to UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon.

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: