Press Release

Following are UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s remarks to the General Assembly meeting on Haiti, in New York today, 22 January:

A new exhibition of the recently uncovered blueprints of the Auschwitz-Birkenau Second World War death camps will open in the Main Gallery of the Visitors Lobby at 6 p.m. on Tuesday, 26 January, as part of a week-long series of Holocaust remembrance activities at United Nations Headquarters in New York.

Following are UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s remarks at the opening of the 2010 session of the Committee on the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People, in New York, 21 January:

Following are UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s remarks at a mass in remembrance of those who died in Haiti at Holy Family Church, New York, 20 January:

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:

United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today announced the appointment of Margot B. Ellis (United States) as Deputy Commissioner-General of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East.

United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, following consultations with the Advisory Commission of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East, is pleased to announce the appointment of Filippo Grandi (Italy) as the Agency’s new Commissioner-General, effective 20 January 2010.

Under the auspices of the Department of Public Information, the United Nations will observe the International Day of Commemoration in memory of the victims of the Holocaust on 27 January 2010, with a ceremony and concert from 7 p.m. to 9:30 p.m. in the General Assembly Hall at Headquarters in New York.

A video exhibition, Generations: Survival and the Legacy of Hope, will open in the Main Gallery of the Visitors Lobby at 6 p.m. on Monday, 25 January, as part of a week-long series of Holocaust remembrance activities at United Nations Headquarters in New York. The International Day of Commemoration in memory of the victims of the Holocaust is 27 January and the theme of this year's observance is "Holocaust Remembrance: The Legacy of Survival".