Press Release

Following is UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s message for World Food Day, commemorated on 16 October:

Following are remarks by UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon at the event marking the 150th anniversary of the birth of Fridtjof Nansen, in Oslo, Norway, today, 10 October:

Following is UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s message for International Disaster Risk Reduction Day, observed on 13 October:

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

Following are the remarks by UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon at the Conference on “Energy for All: Financing Access for the Poor”, in Oslo, 10 October:

Following are the remarks by UN Deputy Secretary-General Asha-Rose Migiro at the opening of the nineteenth session of the United Nations World Tourism Organization General Assembly, in Gyeongju, Republic of Korea, 9 October:

Following is UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s statement on the 2011 Nobel Peace Prize:

As the six Main Committees of the General Assembly begin their work, the Department of Public Information and the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights will hold a series of press conferences by human rights experts expected to attend this year’s session of the Third Committee (Social, Humanitarian and Cultural).

Following are UN Deputy Secretary-General Asha-Rose Migiro’s remarks to a high-level event to mark 10 Years of the New Partnership for Africa’s Development and the Millennium Development Goals: “Progress, Challenges and the Way Forward”, in New York on 7 October:

Following are UN Deputy Secretary-General Asha-Rose Migiro’s closing remarks at the launch of the 2011 report on assessing progress in Africa towards the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), in New York on 6 October: