Press Release

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 at the Security Council thematic open debate “Addressing impunity: Effective justice for crimes of sexual violence in conflict”, in New York on 24 June:

The following statement was issued on 23 June by the Spokesperson for UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon:

Following is the text of UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s video message to the twentieth World Congress of Gerontology and Geriatrics, in Seoul, on 23 June:

Following is UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s message on the International Day against Drug Abuse and Illicit Trafficking, to be observed on 26 June:

Following is UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s message to the Seventeenth St. Petersburg Economic Forum, in St. Petersburg, from 20-22 June:

Following is UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s message for United Nations Public Service Day, to be observed on 23 June:

The following Security Council press statement was issued on 20 June by Council President Mark Lyall Grant (United Kingdom):

One year after the Rio+20 Conference on Sustainable Development, where the eight largest multilateral development banks jointly committed to invest approximately $175 billion in more sustainable developing-world transport systems over the next 10 years, implementation of those commitments is on track, according to experts attending a dialogue hosted in Berlin by the United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs and the Government of Germany.