Press Release

Following is UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s message for World Refugee Day, to be observed on 20 June:

Killey Mwitasi of the United Republic of Tanzania has been awarded the twenty-third Hamilton Shirley Amerasinghe Fellowship on the Law of the Sea.

Following is UN Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon’s message for the World Day to Combat Desertification and Drought, to be observed on 17 June:

Following is UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s message for the 100-day countdown to the International Day of Peace, beginning on 13 June:

Following is UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s message to the Council of Heads of State of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO), delivered by Ján Kubiš, Executive Secretary, United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (ECE), in Tashkent, Uzbekistan, 11 June:

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

The twentieth Meeting of States Parties to the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea will be held at Headquarters from 14 to 18 June.

The following Security Council press statement regarding the mediation efforts by Qatar to resolve the border dispute between Djibouti and Eritrea was read out today by Council President Claude Heller (Mexico):

Advertising agencies from Lebanon, Israel, and the United States, among others, will be honoured for public service advertising on Saturday, 12 June, when the UNDPI awards are presented at the New York Festivals 2010 International Advertising Awards at the Shanghai Theatre Academy in Shanghai, China.

Following are UN Deputy Secretary-General Asha-Rose Migiro’s remarks following the election of the President of the sixty-fifth session of the General Assembly, in New York, 11 June: