Press Release

Following are UN Deputy Secretary-General Asha-Rose Migiro’s remarks at the launch of the International Year of Cooperatives, 31 October, in New York:

Governments, heads of international organizations and representatives of cooperative organizations will meet today at United Nations Headquarters to launch the International Year of Cooperatives (2012) under the theme “Cooperative Enterprises Build a Better World”.

The following statement was issued on 29 October 2011 by the Chief Executives Board for Coordination (CEB) of the United Nations system on next year’s United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development (Rio+20):

Following are UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s remarks at the Security Council open debate on woman and peace and security, in New York, 28 October:

Following are UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s remarks at the United Nations Day concert in New York on 27 October:

For the sixteenth consecutive year, the United Nations Department of Public Information will host a training programme for Palestinian media practitioners, which will take place at United Nations Headquarters from 31 October to 2 December 2011. Ten Palestinian broadcasters and journalists will be invited to participate.

Following are UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s remarks to the Fifth Committee of the General Assembly on the proposed programme budget for the biennium 2012-2013, in New York 27 October:

Following are UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s remarks at a World Food Day commemoration in New York, 27 October:

Following is UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s message to mark the twentieth anniversary of Turkmenistan’s independence, delivered by Jan Kubiš, Executive Secretary of the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (ECE), in Ashgabat, today, 27 October:

Following is UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s message on the fiftieth anniversary of Mongolia’s membership in the United Nations: