Press Release

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 Diabetes Day, observed on 14 November:

Following is UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s message for World Diabetes Day, observed on 14 November:

Following is the text of UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s briefing to the General Assembly on the impact of Hurricane Sandy, in New York, 9 November:

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

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

On 2 November 2012, the Security Council Committee established pursuant to resolution 1988 (2011) approved the addition of the entries specified below to the Committee’s List (the 1988 List) of individuals and entities subject to the assets freeze, travel ban and arms embargo set out in paragraph 1 of Security Council resolution 1988 (2011).

Two elementary school students and two junior high school students from Japan, chosen as “Yokohama Children Peace Messengers”, today presented a cheque for $140,000 donated by residents of the city of Yokohama, for the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF).

On Thursday, 8 November, the United Nations Department of Public Information, in partnership with the Permanent Mission of the Russian Federation to the United Nations, will hold a discussion entitled “From Forgotten Memory to Nascent Remembrance: Holocaust History and Education in Russia Today”, featuring Ilya Altman, renowned historian and co-founder and co-chairman of the Russian Research and Educational Holocaust Centre in Moscow.