Press Release

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

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

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 at the launch of the World Maritime Day theme for 2011: “Piracy: Orchestrating the Response”, in London, 3 February:

Following are UN Deputy Secretary-General Asha-Rose Migiro’s remarks at Auschwitz-Birkenau in Oswiecim on 1 February:

Following is the 2011 Cyril Foster Lecture, on “Human Protection and the Twenty-First Century United Nations”, delivered by UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s at Oxford University on 2 February:

Following is the text of UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s video message on the launch of the International Year of Forests, 2011, today, 2 February, in New York:

Following is the text of UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s remarks on the launch of the website for the Permanent Memorial to honour the Victims of Slavery and the Transatlantic Slave Trade, delivered by Kiyo Akasaka, Under-Secretary-General for Communications and Public Information, today, 1 February, in New York:

The International Year of Forests — a year-long celebration of the vital role that forests play in people’s lives — will be launched on 2 February, at a ceremony attended by world leaders, Nobel Laureate Wangari Maathai and United Nations forest experts. Global observance of the Year comes amid growing recognition of the role that forests managed in a sustainable manner play in everything from mitigating climate change to providing wood, medicines and livelihoods for people around the world.

Following is UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s message for World Interfaith Harmony Week, to be observed in New York from 1 to 7 February: