Press Release

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

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

Helping teachers bring the lessons of the Holocaust to the classroom will be the focus of a day-long programme to be held by the United Nations Department of Public Information in partnership with world-renowned authorities in the field of Holocaust education, from 9:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. on 2 May in Conference Room 6 of the North Lawn Building, at United Nations Headquarters in New York.

Following is the text of Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s video message to the UNA-USA of Greater Boston’s annual Consuls Ball in Boston, 26 April:

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

Following is UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s message, as delivered by Carlos Lopes, Executive Secretary of the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa, in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, 29 April:

Following is UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s message, as delivered by Kassym-Jomart Tokayev, Director-General of the United Nations Office at Geneva, to the Ministerial Conference of the Community of Democracies, in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia, 29 April:

United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today announced the appointment of Modibo Touré of Mali as Special Adviser, at the level of Assistant Secretary-General, to the Special Envoy of the Secretary-General to the Great Lakes Region.

United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today announced the appointment of Nicholas Kay ( United Kingdom) as his Special Representative for Somalia.

The following press statement was issued today by Security Council President Eugène-Richard Gasana (Rwanda):