Press Release

Killey Mwitasi of the United Republic of Tanzania, the twenty-third recipient of the Hamilton Shirley Amerasinghe Memorial Fellowship on the Law of the Sea, completed his fellowship today with the Division for Ocean Affairs and the Law of the Sea, Office of Legal Affairs, where he has been conducting research on judicial decisions dealing with maritime boundary delimitation.

Following is UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s message for the International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination, observed on 21 March:

Following is UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s message on the inauguration of the monument in memory of Guatemalan soldiers who have lost their lives in the cause of peacekeeping, in Guatemala City, today, 17 March:

Following are UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s remarks at the launch of the United Nations Peacebuilding Fund's engagement in Guatemala, 16 March:

Following are UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s remarks at a meeting with regional leaders of Central America, in Guatemala City, 16 March:

The fourth annual commemoration of the International Day of Remembrance of the Victims of Slavery and the Transatlantic Slave Trade will be observed at United Nations Headquarters under the theme "The transatlantic slave trade: The living legacy of 30 million untold stories".

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

Following are UN Deputy Secretary-General Asha-Rose Migiro’s remarks to the General Assembly’s interactive dialogue with the Secretary-General’s High-Level Panel on Global Sustainability, today, 16 March, in New York:

United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has appointed Major General Gnakoudè Béréna of Togo as the Force Commander of the United Nations Operation in Côte d’Ivoire.

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