Press Release

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

Following are Deputy Secretary-General Jan Eliasson’s remarks at the ministerial breakfast meeting on the Responsibility to Protect: Deepening our Commitment to Mass Atrocity Prevention, in New York, 28 September:

On the sidelines of the busy opening of the General Assembly session at United Nations Headquarters, 40 States took 87 treaty actions in an annual event that ended today. “States have again manifested their firm belief in the importance of international treaty law,” said Patricia O’Brien, Under-Secretary-General for Legal Affairs and United Nations Legal Counsel.

Following are UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s remarks to the High-Level Meeting of the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons, in New York, 1 October:

Following are UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s remarks on the occasion of the twentieth anniversary of the Forum of Small States, in New York, 1 October:

Following are UN Deputy Secretary-General Jan Eliasson’s remarks, as delivered, at the Appeal of Conscience Foundation annual awards dinner, in New York, 27 September:

Following are UN Deputy Secretary-General Jan Eliasson’s remarks, as prepared for delivery, at the launch of the Cross-Media Project, “Why Poverty”, in New York, 27 September:

Following are UN Deputy Secretary-General Jan Eliasson’s remarks, as prepared for delivery, at the high-level launch of the United Nations Guidance for Effective Mediation, in New York, 27 September:

Following is UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s message for the International Day of Non-Violence, observed on 2 October:

Following are UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s remarks to the ministerial meeting on the United Nations Alliance of Civilizations, in New York, 28 September: