Press Release

The Government of Canada and the Vancouver Organizing Committee for the 2010 Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games (VANOC) are sponsoring a special event to launch an exhibit and to unveil a sculpture to take place at the Visitors Lobby on Tuesday, 20 October at 6:30 p.m.

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

Following are UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s remarks, as prepared for delivery, at the United Nations International School (UNIS) “Stand Up against Poverty” event, in New York today, 16 October:

As the world commemorates the International Day for the Eradication of Poverty, children living in poverty and their families will make their voices heard and call for full implementation of the Convention on the Rights of the Child at public events at United Nations Headquarters in New York on 19 October.

Following is UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s message on the International Day of Rural Women, observed today, 15 October:

Following is the text of UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s remarks on the fifteenth anniversary of the Office of Internal Oversight Services (OIOS), today, 15 October:

For the second consecutive year, the Department of Public Information will mark United Nations Day (24 October) by dispatching senior United Nations officials to speak at school assemblies in the five boroughs of New York City.

This is the text of a message by UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon to the World Knowledge Forum in Seoul, Republic of Korea, 13-15 October, delivered on his behalf by Timothy Wirth, President of the United Nations Foundation:

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 to the Counter-Terrorism Implementation Task Force, delivered by Jean-Paul Laborde, Head, Office of the Counter-Terrorism Implementation Task Force, in Vienna, 14 October: