Press Release

Following is UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s message to the Pacem in Maribus XXXIII International Conference on Oceans, delivered by Patricia O’Brien, Under-Secretary-General for Legal Affairs, in Beijing, 3 September:

Following are UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s remarks, as prepared for delivery, to the inaugural Conference of the International Anti-Corruption Academy, in Vienna, 2 September:

Following is UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s speech, as prepared for delivery, at Liechtenstein’s Vaduzer-Saal, in Vaduz, 1 September:

Following is UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s message on International Literacy Day, observed 8 September 2010:

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

United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has appointed D. Stephen Mathias of the United States as Assistant Secretary-General for Legal Affairs.

More than 140 leaders in development applications of information and communications technologies (ICT) met today at the United Nations to fine tune an online tool that will be launched during the upcoming High-Level Millennium Development Goals Summit in New York on 21 September 2010.

“This is not the time to question the validity of the MDGs [Millennium Development Goals] themselves, but rather a time to roll up our sleeves and do what is necessary to attain them, and beyond that, to look at the question of ensuring that they are sustainable after 2015,” said Kiyo Akasaka, Under-Secretary-General for Communications and Public Information, today at the conclusion of the sixty-third annual DPI/NGO Conference in Melbourne, Australia.

The fourth and final round table of the sixty-third annual DPI/NGO Conference wrapped up today with a show of overwhelming support for what the Chair of the Conference has called “the people’s document”.

Following are UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s remarks to a General Assembly high-level meeting on launching the Global Plan of Action against Trafficking in Persons, in New York, 31 August: