Press Release

The following statement was issued on 24 February by the Spokesperson for UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon:

The thirty-sixth annual UNIS-UN International Student Conference will be held at the United Nations General Assembly Hall on 1 and 2 March. Approximately 700 students will participate in the Conference, including more than 270 guests from international schools around the world.

Following are UN Deputy Secretary-General Asha-Rose Migiro’s opening remarks to the Commission on the Status of Women, in New York on 27 February:

The fifty-sixth session of the Commission on the Status of Women will open on 27 February at United Nations Headquarters, focused on the theme of empowerment of rural women and their role in poverty and hunger eradication, sustainable development and current challenges. The Commission will agree on urgent actions needed to make a real difference in the lives of millions of rural women.

Following is UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s message, as delivered by B. Lynn Pascoe, Under-Secretary-General for Political Affairs, to the International Conference of the Friends of the Syrian People, today, 24 February, in Tunis:

Following are UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s remarks to the National Assembly of Zambia, today, 24 February, in Lusaka:

The Bureau of the Committee on the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People issued the following statement today, 24 February:

The following joint statement was issued today by United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon and Secretary-General of the League of Arab States Nabil Elaraby:

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 to the opening of the 2012 session of the Special Committee on Decolonization, as delivered by Assistant Secretary-General for Political Affairs, Oscar Fernandez-Taranco, 23 February, in New York: