Press Release

Following is the text of UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s video message to the International Finance Forum Annual Conference, in Beijing, from 16 to 18 November:

The Bureau of the Committee on the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People issued the following statement today, 16 November:

Following are UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s remarks, as prepared for delivery, at the reception to celebrate 60 years of United Nations guided tours, in New York on 15 November:

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 message for World Day of Remembrance for Road Traffic Victims, observed on 18 November:

Following are UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s remarks to the Meeting of High Contracting Parties to the Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons, as delivered by Kassym-Jomart Tokayev, Director-General of the United Nations Office at Geneva, in Geneva, 15 November:

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 message, delivered by Haile Menkerios, Special Envoy for Sudan and South Sudan, to the Ministerial Meeting of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) in Djibouti on 14 November:

On 15 November 2012, the Security Council Committee pursuant to resolutions 1267 (1999) and 1989 (2011) enacted the amendments specified with strikethrough and underline in the entries below on 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.

On 8 November, the United Nations System Chief Executives Board for Coordination (CEB) warmly welcomed the proposal put forward by Dr. Jim Yong Kim, President of the World Bank Group, to review the implementation of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) at the Board’s twice-yearly sessions.