Press Release

A United Nations-organized media seminar will take place in Lisbon, Portugal, from 22 to 23 July, focusing on the role of media, particularly new media, in advancing the Middle East peace process.

Following are UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon’s remarks to the Inter-Parliamentary Union World Conference of Speakers of Parliament, “Parliaments in Time of Crisis: Securing Global Democratic Accountability”, In Geneva, today, 19 July:

Following is the text of UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s video message to the International AIDS Conference, held in Vienna, 18-23 July:

Following is UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s message to the Informal Ministerial Meeting of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE), held in Almaty on 16-17 July, delivered by Ján Kubiš, Executive Secretary of the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (ECE):

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 is the text of UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s remarks to the Security Council’s open debate on preventive diplomacy in Africa, as delivered by Deputy Secretary-General Asha-Rose Migiro, in New York, today, 16 July:

Following is the text of UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s opening remarks to the Millennium Development Goals (MDG) Advocates Meeting, in Madrid, today, 16 July:

The following Security Council press statement on the terrorist attacks in Zahedan, Iran, was read out today by Council President U. Joy Ogwu (Nigeria):

Following is the text of UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s video message for the Symposium on Human Security, in Tokyo today, 15 July: