Press Release

The United Nations Peacebuilding Fund received $151 million in pledges from Member States at its pledging conference held today on the sidelines of the United Nations General Assembly, the Fund announced.

Following are UN Deputy Secretary-General’s Jan Eliasson’s remarks to the high-level panel discussion on leveraging innovative finance to address the refugee crises in middle-income countries, in New York today:

Following are UN Deputy Secretary-General’s Jan Eliasson’s closing remarks at the pledging conference for the Secretary-General’s Peacebuilding Fund, in New York today:

Following are UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s remarks, delivered by Gyan Chandra Acharya, Under-Secretary-General and High Representative for the Least Developed Countries, Landlocked Developing Countries and Small Island Developing States (SIDS), to the leaders’ luncheon on ocean partnerships for sustainable development, in New York today:

Following are UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s remarks to the eighth ministerial meeting of the Friends of the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty (CTBT), in New York today:

Following is the text of UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s video message at the “Making Every Woman and Girl Count” event, in New York today:

Following are UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s remarks at the panel on “the death penalty and victims”, in New York today:

Following are UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s remarks, as prepared for delivery, at the unveiling ceremony for the staff recreation facility, in New York today:

United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon and International Olympic Committee (OIC) President Thomas Bach today unveiled a cornerstone plaque to commemorate the United Nations-IOC partnership to build a United Nations staff recreation facility.

Following are UN Deputy Secretary-General Jan Eliasson’s opening remarks, as prepared for delivery, at the high-level meeting on Somalia, in New York today: