Press Release

Following are UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s remarks, as prepared for delivery, to the United Nations Association of Canada, in Ottawa on 12 May:

Following is the text of Deputy Secretary-General Asha-Rose Migiro’s statement to the high-level segment of the Eighteenth Session of the Commission on Sustainable Development, yesterday, 12 May, in New York:

NEW YORK, 12 May (United Nations Office for Disarmament Affairs) ‑‑ At its thirtieth Ministerial Meeting, held last week in Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of the Congo, the 11 member States of the United Nations Standing Advisory Committee on Security Questions in Central Africa (UNSAC) unanimously adopted the “Central African Convention on the control of small arms and light weapons, their ammunition, parts and components that can be used for their manufacture, repair or assembly”.

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

The following statement was issued today by the Middle East Quartet ( United Nations, Russian Federation, United States, European Union):

On 11 May 2010, the Security Council Al-Qaida and Taliban Sanctions Committee approved the addition of the two entries specified 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.

Following is UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s message on the International Day of Families, observed 15 May:

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

The following Security Council press statement on Burundi was read out today by Council President Nawaf Salam ( Lebanon):

Following are UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s remarks at a concert by the Youth Symphonic Orchestra of the Commonwealth of Independent States on the 65th anniversary of the end of World War II in Europe, in New York, 7 May: