Press Release

Two exhibitions will open to the public in the Visitors Lobby at United Nations Headquarters on Tuesday, 22 January, as part of a week-long series of remembrance activities leading up to the International Day of Commemoration in Memory of the Victims of the Holocaust, 27 January, and in line with the theme of this year’s observance, “Rescue during the Holocaust: The Courage to Care”.

The following statement was issued on 16 January by the Spokesperson for UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon:

United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has announced the appointment of Carl Alexandre of the United States as his Deputy Special Representative for the United Nations Stabilization Mission in Haiti (MINUSTAH).

United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon announced today the appointment of Ahmad Alhendawi of Jordan as his Envoy on Youth.

Following are UN Deputy Secretary-General Jan Eliasson’s remarks, as prepared for delivery, to the inception meeting of the Asian Development Bank (ADB), Economic and Social Council for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP) and United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) Millennium Development Goals (MDG) report in New York on 14 January:

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

Following are the remarks of UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon at the ceremony to hand over the chairmanship of the “Group of 77” developing countries and China, in New York on 15 January:

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 Security Council open debate on threats to international peace and security caused by terrorist acts, in New York on 15 January:

On 15 January 2013, the Security Council Committee established pursuant to resolution 1988 (2011) deleted the entries specified below from the Committee’s List (the 1988 List). The assets freeze, travel ban and arms embargo set out in paragraph 1 of Security Council resolution 2082 (2012) therefore no longer apply to the following individuals: