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Following are UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s remarks at the informal General Assembly thematic debate on inequality, on 8 July:

The following statement was issued on 7 July by the Spokesperson for UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon:

United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today announced the appointment of David Gressly of the United States as his Deputy Special Representative in the United Nations Multidimensional Integrated Stabilization Mission in Mali (MINUSMA), where he will also serve as United Nations Resident Coordinator, Humanitarian Coordinator and Resident Representative of the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP).

United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today announced the appointment of Abdoulaye Bathily of Senegal as his Deputy Special Representative in the United Nations Multidimensional Integrated Stabilization Mission in Mali (MINUSMA).

Kuwait deposited on 3 July its instrument of accession to the Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons (CCW), and to the following Protocols of that treaty: Protocol I on non-detectable fragments; Amended Protocol II on the use of mines, booby-traps and other devices; Protocol III on the use of incendiary weapons; Protocol IV on blinding laser weapons; and Protocol V on explosive remnants of war.

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 is UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s message, delivered by Alicia Bárcena, Executive Secretary of the United Nations Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean, to the thirty-fourth Meeting of the Conference of Heads of Government of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM), in Port-of-Spain on 4 July:

Following are UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s remarks as prepared for delivery at the opening of UN City in Copenhagen on 4 July:

The following statement was issued on 4 July by the Spokesperson for UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon: