Press Release

Following is UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s message to the Council of Heads of State of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO), delivered by B. Lynn Pascoe, Under-Secretary-General for Political Affairs, in Yekaterinburg, Russian Federation, on 15 June:

Petri Kristian Cozma, a student at the Helsinki School of Economics, was elected as the first General Assembly President of the Global Model United Nations Conference. Mr. Cozma and eight other university students will attend a workshop, organized by the Department of Public Information, at United Nations Headquarters from 17 to 19 June, to be trained in their roles as General Assembly officials for the Conference.

The United Nations Office for Disarmament Affairs, through its Regional Centre for Peace and Disarmament in Asia and the Pacific, located in Nepal, is organizing a regional seminar entitled “Enhancing International and Regional Cooperation to Prevent, Combat and Eradicate Illicit Brokering in Small Arms and Light Weapons in South Asia and Central Asia”, to be held in Kathmandu, the Nepalese capital, on 17-18 June.

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

Following are UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s concluding remarks to the Forum on Global Health today, 15 June:

Following is UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s message for the International Day in Support of Victims of Torture, to be observed on 26 June:

Following is UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s address at Saint Louis University, Missouri, on 12 June:

Following is UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s statement on the urgency of the entry into force of the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty, issued today, 15 June:

Following are UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s remarks at the Forum on Global Health: The Tie That Binds, today, 15 June:

Following are Deputy Secretary-General Asha-Rose Migiro’s remarks at a luncheon to launch the 2009 Report of the Global Campaign for the Health Millennium Development Goals on 15 June: