Press Release

Following is UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s message for the International Day for Preventing the Exploitation of the Environment in War and Armed Conflict, on 6 November:

Following are UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s remarks to the 2011 Labour Summit, in Cannes, France, 3 November:

Following is UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s message from the tenth anniversary of the adoption of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) Universal Declaration on Cultural Diversity, 2 November:

Following is UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s message to the Istanbul Conference on Afghanistan, delivered by Staffan de Mistura, Special Representative of the Secretary-General and Head of United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA), in Istanbul, 2 November:

On 28 October 2011, the Security Council Committee established pursuant to resolution 1572 (2004) concerning Côte d’Ivoire updated the list of individuals and entities subject to the measures imposed by paragraphs 9 and 11 of resolution 1572 (2004), as renewed by paragraph 1 and amended by paragraph 4 of resolution 1643 (2005).

On 9 November, the United Nations Department of Public Information, in partnership with the International Bar Association, will organize a roundtable discussion entitled, “Justice and Accountability after the Holocaust”, to examine the failure of the judiciary in Germany to safeguard the rights of individuals under Nazi rule and the responsibility of States and the courts today to protect their populations.

Following is UN Deputy Secretary-General Asha-Rose Migiro’s address to the Great Kansas City Chapter of the United Nations Association of the United States of America, in Kansas City, Missouri, 1 November:

This is the text of remarks by Deputy Secretary-General Asha-Rose Migiro at the University of Missouri-Kansas City Truman Center for Governmental Affairs in Kansas City, Missouri, 1 November:

The Tenth United Nations-Republic of Korea Joint Conference on Disarmament and Non-proliferation Issues will take place in Jeju, Republic of Korea, on 7 and 8 November. This annual event is organized jointly by the United Nations Office for Disarmament Affairs through its Regional Centre for Peace and Disarmament in Asia and the Pacific and the Government of the Republic of Korea. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon is sending a video message to the Conference.

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