Press Release

Following is UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s message for the International Day for Preventing the Exploitation of the Environment in War and Armed Conflict, observed on 6 November:

On 3 November 2016, the Security Council Committee established pursuant to resolution 2206 (2015) concerning South Sudan enacted the amendment specified with underline in the entry below on its Sanctions List of individuals and entities subject to the assets freeze and travel ban set out in paragraph 7 of Security Council resolution 2290 (2016) adopted under Chapter VII of the Charter of the United Nations:

Following are UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s remarks, as prepared for delivery, at the award ceremony for the Prince Sultan bin Abdulaziz International Prize for Water, in New York today:

Following are UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s remarks, as prepared for delivery, on receiving the Founders Award from the Elton John AIDS Foundation, in New York today:

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

Following is UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s message for World Tsunami Awareness Day, observed on 5 November:

Following is UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s message, delivered by Miguel de Serpa Soares, Under-Secretary-General for Legal Affairs and United Nations Legal Counsel, to an event organized by the Asian-African Legal Consultative Organization, in New York today:

The Government of Chile hosted a training course for the national Points of Contact of States in the Latin American and the Caribbean region from 24 to 28 October.

The text of UN Deputy Secretary-General Jan Eliasson’s remarks to the National Assembly of the Central African Republic is not available in English.

Following is UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s message for the International Day to End Impunity for Crimes against Journalists, observed on 2 November: