Press Release

An exhibition of the best press photographs of 2008 will open in the Main Gallery of the Visitors Lobby at 6 p.m. on Wednesday, 8 July 2009. This travelling exhibition of winning images selected at the fifty-second annual World Press Photo Contest in Amsterdam this year will remain on display through 29 July.

With the annual DPI/NGO Conference, entitled “For Peace and Development: Disarm Now!”, taking place in Mexico City from 9 to 11 September, Eric Falt, Chair, Department of Public Information Committee on Non-Governmental Organizations, stated that it is particularly fitting that the large majority of non-governmental organizations newly accepted today for association -- 43 – were based in Mexico.

Following is UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s message to the thirtieth Heads of Government Meeting of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) in Georgetown, Guyana, on 2-3 July:

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:

The Independent Audit Advisory Committee of the United Nations held its seventh session in New York from 30 June to 2 July 2009. The session was presided over by the Chairman, David M. Walker.

Rwanda will host a United Nations regional meeting on the Programme of Action on Small Arms and Light Weapons for States of the Horn of Africa, the Great Lakes region and Southern Africa, on 8 and 9 July, in Kigali, the capital.

Following are UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s remarks at a town hall meeting at the University of Tokyo on 1 July: