Press Release

Following is the text of UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s message on Human Rights Day, on 10 December:

Following are UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s remarks, as prepared for delivery, to the Women’s International Forum, in New York, 1 December:

Following is the text of Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s video message on the fiftieth anniversary of the signing of the Antarctic Treaty, in Washington, D.C., today, 1 December, as recorded 24 November:

Following is the text of UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s message to the seventeenth Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe Ministerial Council Meeting, in Athens, on 1 December, as delivered by Ján Kubiš, Executive Secretary, United Nations Economic Commission for Europe:

Following is UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s message on International Volunteer Day, observed 5 December:

Following is UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s message for the International Day of Persons with Disabilities, observed 3 December:

United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has appointed Corinne Momal-Vanian as the Director of the United Nations Information Service in Geneva.

United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has designated Grammy Award-winning songwriter and musician Stevie Wonder (United States) as a United Nations Messenger of Peace with a special focus on people with disabilities. His designation will be officially announced at a press conference at United Nations Headquarters on Thursday, 3 December 2009.

Following are Deputy Secretary-General Asha-Rose Migiro’s remarks to the South-South Cooperation Conference in Nairobi, 1 December:

Following is UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s message for World AIDS Day, observed 1 December: