Press Release

United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon will open on Wednesday, 14 September, the “Give Peace Another Chance” symposium in observance of the annual International Day of Peace. The event will be held from 7 to 10 p.m. in Conference Room 4 of the North Lawn Temporary Conference Building.

The United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) will hold a panel discussion on the challenges and opportunities resulting from the milestone to be reached on 31 October, when the world is expected to welcome its seven-billionth person.

For the thirty-first consecutive year, the United Nations Reham al-Farra (RAF) Memorial Journalists Fellowship Programme starts today at United Nations Headquarters.

Following is UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s message, delivered by Sahle-Work Zewde, Under-Secretary-General and Director-General of the United Nations Office in Nairobi, to the Horn of Africa Summit being held there today, 9 September:

The following Security Council press statement was issued today by Council President Nawaf Salam (Lebanon):

Following are Deputy Secretary-General Asha-Rose Migiro’s remarks at the General Assembly ceremony commemorating the tenth anniversary of the 11 September 2001 terrorist attacks on the United States, in New York, 9 September 2011:

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 prepared for delivery, at a dinner with the Governor-General of Australia in Canberra today, 8 September:

Following are UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s remarks at Sydney University today, 8 September: