Press Release

The following is a message of UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, as delivered by Ján Kubiš, Executive Secretary, United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (ECE), to the Astana Economic Forum, in Kazakhstan, today, 3 May:

Following is UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s message for World Press Freedom Day, to be observed on 3 May:

Following is UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s statement in New York today following the news of Osama bin Laden’s death:

Advertising agencies from Sweden, Hungary and China, among other countries, will be honoured for public service advertising on Thursday, 5 May, during the 2011 New York Festivals/United Nations Department of Public Information International Advertising Awards at Skylight West in New York City.

A panel discussion on “Getting the Facts Right”, to be held at United Nations Headquarters on Wednesday, 4 May, will seek to draw lessons from the recent past from the perspective of “If we had known then what we know now”. The event, to be held in the Dag Hammarskjöld Auditorium, from 3 p.m. to 5 p.m., will promote the launch of the 2007 edition of the United Nations Yearbook, which has been released for the first time as an e-book.

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

The following statement was issued on 28 April by the Spokesperson for UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon:

United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today announced the appointment of Geeta Rao Gupta, a United States national born in India, as Deputy Executive Director of the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF). Ms. Rao Gupta will succeed Saad Houry. The Secretary-General would like to take this opportunity to thank Mr. Houry for his exceptional service and commitment to UNICEF.

The Commission on the Limits of the Continental Shelf (the “Commission”) held its twenty-seventh session at United Nations Headquarters from 7 March to 21 April 2011, pursuant to the decisions taken at its twenty-fifth and twenty-sixth sessions as well as pursuant to General Assembly resolution 65/37 A. The plenary part of the session was held from 28 March to 5 April.

The following Security Council press statement was issued today by Council President Néstor Osorio (Colombia):