Press Release

The following statement was issued on 15 June by the Spokesperson for UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon:

United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon announced today the appointment of Major General Jean Bosco Kazura of Rwanda as the Force Commander for the United Nations Multidimensional Integrated Stabilization Mission in Mali (MINUSMA).

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 election of John W. Ashe as President of the sixty-eighth session of the General Assembly, 14 June in New York:

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

The following Security Council statement was issued today by Council President Mark Lyall Grant (United Kingdom):

The United Nations General Assembly will consider the impact of increasing ocean acidification on the marine environment and on people as the theme of this year’s informal consultative process on oceans, to be held from 17 to 20 June.

Following is UN Secretary-General’s message for World Day to Combat Desertification and Drought, observed on 17 June:

Following are the opening remarks from New York of UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon in an online discussion with youth in Bonn on climate change, 13 June:

Following is UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s message to the Fifth World Congress against the Death Penalty, in Madrid, 12 June: