Press Release

Following are UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s remarks to the high-level meeting of the General Assembly on transnational organized crime, in New York today, 17 June:

Following are UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s remarks at a reception marking the fortieth anniversary of the International Peace Institute (IPI), in New York on 16 June:

Following are UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s remarks at a meeting with civil society in Freetown, Sierra Leone, on 15 June:

Following are UN Deputy Secretary-General Asha-Rose Migiro’s closing remarks to the High-level Tripartite Conference on “Delivering as One: Lessons from Country-led Evaluations and the Way Forward”, in Hanoi on 16 June:

Following are UN Deputy Secretary-General Asha-Rose Migiro’s opening remarks to the High-level Segment of The High-level Tripartite Conference on “Delivering as One: Lessons from Country-led Evaluations and the Way Forward”, in Hanoi on 16 June:

Following are UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s remarks at the inauguration of the Sierra Leone Broadcasting Corporation, in Freetown, today, 15 June:

The following Security Council press statement on Iraq/Kuwait was read out today by Council President Claude Heller ( Mexico):

Eighteen university students from around the world have taken on the challenge of leading the 2010 Global Model United Nations Conference organized by the world body’s Department of Public Information, with nine being selected to form the Secretariat while others were elected as General Assembly officials in an online poll.

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

Following is UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s message for the International Day in Support of Victims of Torture, to be observed on 26 June: