Press Release

Following are UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s remarks to the General Assembly on the Group of Twenty (G-20) Summit, in New York, 31 July:

United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today announced the members of a High-level Panel to advise on the global development agenda beyond 2015, the target date for the Millennium Development Goals.

United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has appointed the incoming Under-Secretary-General for Communications and Public Information, Peter Launsky-Tieffenthal of Austria, as Coordinator for Multilingualism, in implementation of General Assembly resolutions 54/64 of 1999 and 61/266 of 2007, by which the General Assembly requested the Secretary-General to appoint a senior official as coordinator of the questions relating to multilingualism throughout the Secretariat.

The Division for Ocean Affairs and the Law of the Sea, Office of Legal Affairs of the United Nations Secretariat, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade of the Republic of Korea and the Korea Maritime Institute, in cooperation with the Organizing Committee for Expo 2012 Yeosu Korea, are organizing the year’s Yeosu International Conference in commemoration of the thirtieth anniversary of the opening for signature of the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS).

The sixty-seventh anniversary of the bombing of Hiroshima, on 6 August 2012, will be launched by a new website, which will make available new testimonies of atomic bomb survivors living in the Americas.

Following is UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s message on the International Day of Friendship, 30 July:

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

The following Security Council press statement was issued today by Council President Néstor Osorio (Colombia):

Following is UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s video message for the Olympic Games and Truce today, 27 July: