Press Release

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, delivered by Deputy Secretary-General Asha-Rose Migiro, to the Counter-Terrorism Committee Practitioners’ Seminar on Bringing Terrorists to Justice, in New York, today, 1 December:

Following are UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s remarks to the Summit of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE), in Astana, Kazakhstan, on 1 December:

Following is UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s message on the International Volunteer Day for Economic and Social Development, to be observed on 5 December:

On 1 December 2010, the Security Council Committee established pursuant to resolution 1533 (2004) concerning the Democratic Republic of the Congo added the following four individuals to the List of individuals and entities subject to the measures imposed by paragraphs 13 and 15 of resolution 1596 (2005), as renewed by paragraph 3 of resolution 1952 (2010):

On 30 November 2010, the Committee approved the changes specified with strike-through and underline in the entries below to its Consolidated List of individuals and entities subject to the assets freeze, travel ban and arms embargo set out in paragraph 1 of Security Council resolution 1904 (2009) adopted under Chapter VII of the Charter of the United Nations.

Seizing the momentum created by the United Nations Summit on the Millennium Development Goals in September, the international disability community and advocates around the world will stand together with Governments, global leaders, policy makers and other stakeholders, to call for inclusion of persons with disabilities and their needs in all aspects of development efforts, when they commemorate the International Day of Persons with Disabilities on 3 December.

The United Nations Global Pulse project brings together more than 100 technology and data experts this week in a workshop to design the architecture of a software platform that will help monitor the social and economic impact of global crises in real time.

Following are UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s remarks, as prepared for delivery, on receiving the appeal of Women of Central Asia on Women, Peace and Security, in Astana today, 30 November:

The Inter Institutional Training Course on Combating Illicit Firearms Trafficking (IITC) of the United Nations Regional Centre for Peace, Disarmament and Development in Latin America and the Caribbean (UN-LiREC) has won recognition for “Best Practice” in the category of Regional Arms Control Initiatives.