Press Release

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

NEW YORK, 6 December (Division for Ocean Affairs and the Law of the Sea) ― The Commission on the Limits of the Continental Shelf held its forty-second session at United Nations Headquarters from 17 October to 2 December 2016.

Following is UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s message, delivered by Lenni Montiel, Assistant Secretary-General for Economic Development, to the eleventh session of the Internet Governance Forum, in Jalisco, Mexico today:

The new Permanent Representative of the Republic of Korea to the United Nations, Cho Tae-yul, presented his credentials to UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today.

The new Permanent Representative of Cabo Verde to the United Nations, José Luis Rocha, presented his credentials to UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today.

Following is the text of UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s video message to the Arab Knowledge Summit, in Dubai, today:

Following is UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s message, as delivered by Tadamichi Yamamoto, Special Representative for Afghanistan, to the sixth Ministerial Conference of the Heart of Asia-Istanbul Process, in Amritsar, India, 4 December:

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

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

Following is the text of UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s video message to the United States summit on female genital mutilation (FGM), in Washington, D.C., today: