Press Release

Following is UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s video message on the sixty-fifth anniversary of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), in Paris, 14 December:

Following are UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s remarks to the replenishment conference for the Central Emergency Response Fund (CERF), in New York, 14 December:

Following are UN Secretary-GeneralBan Ki-moon’s remarks on the fiftieth anniversary of the Declaration on the Granting of Independence to Colonial Countries and Peoples, in New York, 14 December:

The following Security Council press statement was read out today by Council President Susan Rice (United States):

Following is the text of UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s message, as delivered by B. Lynn Pascoe, Under-Secretary-General for Political Affairs, to the International Conference on the Fifteenth Anniversary of Turkmenistan’s Permanent Neutrality, in Ashgabat, 11 December:

Following is UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s message for United Nations Day for South-South Cooperation, observed on 19 December:

Following is UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s message for International Human Solidarity Day, to be observed on 20 December:

Following is UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s video message for the Luxor Forum against Human Trafficking at Luxor, Egypt, on 11 December:

Following is UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s statement on the outcome of the climate change negotiations in Cancun, Mexico:

International, regional and subregional organizations will participate in a meeting on cooperation in promoting the implementation of United Nations Security Council resolution 1540 (2004) at the Hofburg Congress Centre in Vienna, Austria, from 15 to 16 December.