Press Release

United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon is pleased to announce the appointment of Kiran Mehra-Kerpelman as Director of the United Nations Information Centre (UNIC) in New Delhi, India. She will assume her new duties on 1 February 2011.

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

Following is the text of UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s video message to the twenty-first World Conference of the International Association for Volunteer Effort, in Singapore, today, 24 January:

Following is the text of UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s remarks at the Park East Synagogue International Day of Commemoration in memory of the victims of the Holocaust, in New York, on 22 January:

On 22 January 2011, the Security Council Al-Qaida and Taliban Sanctions Committee approved the deletion (de-listing) of the two entries specified below from its Consolidated List.

The following Security Council press statement was issued today by Council President Ivan Barbalić (Bosnia and Herzegovina):

On 27 January 2011, the United Nations Department of Public Information will honour women at the sixth annual observance of the International Day of Commemoration in memory of the victims of the Holocaust in a ceremony, to be held in the General Assembly Hall from 10 a.m. to noon.

Real Madrid goalkeeper Iker Casillas, along with Special Adviser to the United Nations Secretary-General on Sport for Development and Peace, Wilfried Lemke, today launched the new comic book Score the Goals: Teaming Up to Achieve the Millennium Development Goals, at the United Nations in Geneva.

The new Permanent Representative of the Czech Republic to the United Nations, Edita Hrda, today presented her credentials to United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon.

The new Permanent Representative of Mauritius to the United Nations, Jaya Nyamrajsingh Meetarbhan, today presented his credentials to United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon.