Press Release

Following are UN Deputy Secretary-General Asha-Rose Migiro’s remarks to the Interactive Thematic Debate on Fostering Cross-Cultural Understanding for Building Peaceful and Inclusive Societies, in New York on 22 March:

Following is Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s message on the International Day for the Right to the Truth Concerning Gross Human Rights Violations and for the Dignity of Victims:

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

Following are UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s remarks, as delivered at his dinner with Dato’ Sri Anifah Haji Aman, Minister for Foreign Affairs of Malaysia, in Kuala Lumpur, today, 21 March:

Following is UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s address on “The United Nations and Global Security: Collaboration and Partnership”, to the Jakarta International Defence Dialogue, on 21 March:

Following is UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s lecture at the Indonesia Peace and Security Centre, entitled “UN Peacekeeping: Challenges and Opportunities for Indonesia, the Region and Beyond”, delivered in Sentul, Indonesia, 20 March:

On 20 March 2012, the Security Council Committee pursuant to resolutions 1267 (1999) and 1989 (2011) approved the amendments specified with strikethrough and underline in the entries 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 Security Council press statement was issued today by Council President Mark Lyall Grant (United Kingdom):

The fifth annual commemoration of the International Day of Remembrance of the Victims of Slavery and the Transatlantic Slave Trade will be observed at United Nations Headquarters under the theme "The Transatlantic Slave Trade: Honouring the Heroes, Resisters and Survivors". This year’s theme will focus on many of the courageous individuals who, in various ways, resisted slavery and fought for their own freedom and that of others.

Following are UN Deputy Secretary-General Asha-Rose Migiro’s remarks on World Down Syndrome Day, in New York, 21 March: