SG/SM/12461
The following statement was issued today by the Spokesperson for UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon:
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SG/SM/12460-OBV/811
Following is the text of remarks made by UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon to the student observance of the International Day of Peace, today, in New York:
SG/SM/12459-OBV/810
Following are Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s remarks at the Peace Bell ceremony, today, in New York:
ECO/166
The severity and pervasive character of the economic crisis continues to push millions of people into poverty and is reversing some of the hard-won development gains of the past decade, states a new United Nations report on the impact of the crisis.
DSG/SM/470-ECO/167
Following is the text of opening remarks by UN Deputy Secretary-General Asha-Rose Migiro at a press conference on “Voices of the Vulnerable: the Economic Crisis from the Ground Up” and the Global Impact and Vulnerability Alert System, delivered today, 18 September:
DC/3190
Small arms experts from West African nations gathered in Prague, capital of the Czech Republic, from 14 to 18 September to participate in a capacity-building workshop focusing on implementation of the International Instrument to Enable States to Identify and Trace, in a Timely and Reliable Manner, Illicit Small Arms and Light Weapons.
BIO/4131
The new Permanent Representative of Croatia to the United Nations, Ranko Vilović, today presented his credentials to UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon.
SG/SM/12457-AFR/1888
The following is a statement by UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon:
Note No. 6217
On Friday, 18 September, the United Nations Department of Public Information will hold the twelfth student observance of the International Day of Peace under the theme “Disarm Now for a Better World”, in line with the Secretary-General’s “We Must Disarm” campaign.
SG/T/2697
United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon arrived in Mexico City on the afternoon of Tuesday, 8 September. The primary purpose of his trip was to open the sixty-second annual Department of Public Information/Non-Governmental Organizations (DPI/NGO) Conference. The Conference’s theme this year was “For Peace and Development: Disarm Now!”.