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United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has appointed Flavia Pansieri of Italy as Assistant Secretary-General to serve as Deputy High Commissioner for Human Rights.

NEW YORK, 15 March (Division for Ocean Affairs and the Law of the Sea, Office of Legal Affairs) ― The Commission on the Limits of the Continental Shelf held its thirty-first session at United Nations Headquarters from 21 January to 8 March 2013. The thirty-first session included two weeks of plenary meetings and five weeks devoted to the technical examination of submissions at the geographic information systems laboratories and other technical facilities of the Division.

To mark the first International Day of Happiness, the United Nations Academic Impact of the Department of Public Information will host, on Wednesday, 20 March, a conversation on “Happiness and well-being: Essential for a sustainable future.”

The United Nations Final Conference on the Arms Trade Treaty opens Monday, 18 March, at United Nations Headquarters in New York amid broad expectations of finally arriving at a successful outcome, which had eluded the Arms Trade Treaty Conference in July 2012.

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 statement on the United Nations Conference on the Arms Trade Treaty:

Following are UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s closing remarks, as prepared for delivery, at the Global Colloquium of University Presidents today at New York University:

Following is UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s message to the Fashion4Development event to be held in Seoul on 18 March:

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 to the opening of the Open Working Group on the Sustainable Development Goals, in New York, 14 March: