Press Release

Following is UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s message to the sixteenth Saint Petersburg International Economic Forum, delivered by Alexander Trepelkov, Director, Financing for Development Office, Department of Economic and Social Affairs, in Saint Petersburg, 21 June:

Following is the text of UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s video message to the twenty-fifth meeting of the Special Programme of Research, Development and Research Training in Human Reproduction (HRP) Policy and Coordinating Committee and HRP’s fortieth anniversary, being observed in Geneva, 21-22 June:

Following is the text of a video message from Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on the ‘Zero Hunger Challenge’, in Rio de Janeiro, 21 June:

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

On 21 June 2012, the Security Council Committee pursuant to resolutions 1267 (1999) and 1989 (2011) enacted the amendments specified with strikethrough and 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:

On 20 June 2012, the Security Council Al-Qaida Sanctions Committee decided to remove the names of the individuals below from the Al-Qaida Sanctions List after concluding its consideration of two de-listing requests submitted through the Ombudsperson established pursuant to Security Council resolution 1904 (2009), and after considering the Comprehensive Reports of the Ombudsperson on these de-listing requests.

Following are Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s remarks, as prepared for delivery, at the signing of an agreement on the establishment of the Global Green Growth Institute, in Rio de Janeiro, 20 June:

Following are the remarks of UN Secretary-General Ban Ki moon to the Rio+20 Conference ceremonial opening session, in Rio de Janeiro, 20 June:

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

The following Security Council press statement was issued today by Council President Li Baodong (China):