Press Release

The Art for Peace Calendar for 2013 comprises 12 winning entries in the Art for Peace Contest 2012, sponsored by the United Nations Office for Disarmament Affairs and the Harmony for Peace Foundation with the goal of encouraging children and teens across the globe to use their creative talents to “imagine a world free of nuclear weapons”.

Following are UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s keynote remarks, as prepared for delivery, to the informal ministerial round table entitled “Ambition, Support and Delivery, Now and in the Future”, in Doha, on 5 December:

Following is the text of UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s video message to the GAVI Alliance Partners’ Forum, held in Dar es Salaam, 5 December:

On 5 December 2012, the Security Council Committee pursuant to resolutions 1267 (1999) and 1989 (2011) approved the addition of the entry specified below to its Al-Qaida Sanctions List of individuals and entities subject to the assets freeze, travel ban and arms embargo set out in paragraph 1 of Security Council resolution 1989 (2011) adopted under Chapter VII of the Charter of the United Nations:

Following are UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s remarks to the Chief Executives Board meeting on “The UN system Delivering as One on Climate Change: Sustainable Solutions for Climate Action”, in Doha on 4 December:

Following are UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s remarks at the eighteenth Conference of Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) “Momentum for Change” event, in Doha on 4 December:

Following are UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s remarks to the high-level segment of the eighteenth Conference of Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), in Doha on 4 December:

A new iPhone app developed by the United Nations Department of Public Information with a team of United Nations online volunteers is now downloadable for free. Illustrating the breadth of activities of the United Nations system around the world, the UN Calendar of Observances app uses the international days as a basis to show users, through photos, videos and weblinks, what the United Nations does.

Following is the text of UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s video message to the opening of the World Conference on International Telecommunications, in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, 3 December:

The following statement was issued on 2 December by the Spokesperson for UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon: