Press Release

United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today announced the appointment of Margaret Vogt of Nigeria as his Special Representative and Head of the United Nations Integrated Peacebuilding Office in the Central African Republic (BINUCA). Ms. Vogt will replace Sahle-Work Zewde of Ethiopia.

Following is UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s message for the International Day for Biodiversity, observed 22 May:

Following is UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s message for the World Day for Cultural Diversity for Dialogue and Development, observed 21 May:

Following are UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s remarks, partly delivered in French, to the Security Council on the situation in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, in New York on 18 May:

At its thirtieth meeting on 2 May 2011, the Working Group of the Security Council on Children and Armed Conflict agreed, in connection with the third report of the Secretary-General on children and armed conflict in Chad (document S/2011/64), to address the following message to all parties to the conflict in Chad, through a public statement by the Chairman of the Working Group:

At its thirtieth meeting on 2 May 2011, the Security Council Working Group on Children and Armed Conflict agreed, in connection with the examination of the second report of the Secretary-General on children and armed conflict in Afghanistan (document S/2011/55), to address the following message, through public statements issued by the Chairman of the Working Group:

The following Security Council press statement was issued today by Council President Gérard Araud (France):

On 12 May 2011, the Security Council Al-Qaida and Taliban Sanctions Committee approved the changes specified with strike-through and underline in the 70 entries below to its Consolidated List of individuals and entities subject to the assets freeze, travel ban and arms embargo set out in paragraph 1 of Security Council resolution 1904 (2009) adopted under Chapter VII of the Charter of the United Nations.

Francis Deng, Special Adviser to the Secretary-General on the Prevention of Genocide, and John Prendergast, co-founder of the Enough Project, will open a one-day event on genocide, organized by the United Nations Department of Public Information, from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. in Conference Room 4, at New York Headquarters, on 20 May.

Following is UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s message, as delivered by Michel Jarraud, Secretary-General of the World Meteorological Organization, to the Sixteenth Meteorological Congress, in Geneva, 16 May: