Press Release

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 on the International Day for the Eradication of Poverty, observed on 17 October:

Following is UN Deputy Secretary-General Jan Eliasson’s briefing to Member States on the new approach to cholera in Haiti, in New York today:

Following are UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s remarks to the General Assembly meeting to pay tribute to the memory of Girma Asmerom Tesfay, the late Permanent Representative of the State of Eritrea to the United Nations, in New York today:

United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today announced the appointment of François Louncény Fall of Guinea as his Acting Special Representative for Central Africa and Head of the United Nations Regional Office for Central Africa (UNOCA).

NEW YORK, 14 October (Division for Ocean Affairs and the Law of the Sea) — The Commission on the Limits of the Continental Shelf will hold its forty-second session from 17 October to 2 December.

The following Security Council press statement was issued today by Council President Vitaly I. Churkin (Russian Federation):

United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has established the United Nations Haiti Cholera Response Multi-Partner Trust Fund to finance critical priorities of the new United Nations system approach to cholera in Haiti designed to support the country in overcoming the epidemic and building sound water, sanitation and health systems.

United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon left Hamburg, Germany, in the evening of Friday, 7 October, for Reykjavik to participate in the Assembly of the Arctic Circle, accompanied by Madam Ban Soon-taek.

United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon left Rome, Italy, on 6 October, for Hamburg, Germany, for the twentieth anniversary of the establishment of the Tribunal for the Law of the Sea.