Press Release

On 28 September 2012, the United Nations-African Union Joint Task Force on Peace and Security held its fifth consultative meeting at United Nations Headquarters in New York, on the margins of the sixty-seventh session of the United Nations General Assembly.

Following is the text of UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s video message for the Prix Galien International Ceremony, in Lyon, France, 4 October:

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:

Following is UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s message for World Teachers’ Day, observed on 5 October:

The following Security Council press statement was issued today by Council President Gert Rosenthal (Guatemala):

On 3 October 2012, the Security Council Committee pursuant to resolutions 1267 (1999) and 1989 (2011) approved the amendments specified with underline in the entry 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.

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:

Following consultations with the Director-General of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), Irina Bokova, and with her concurrence, United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has appointed David M. Malone of Canada as Rector of the United Nations University (UNU) in Tokyo.