Press Release

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 UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s message, delivered by Kim Won-soo, Under-Secretary-General and High Representative for Disarmament Affairs, for an event marking the International Day against Nuclear Tests, in New York today:

Following are UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s remarks at the Twenty-first Century Panglong Conference, in Nay Pyi Taw today:

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

On 30 August 2016, the Security Council Committee established pursuant to resolution 1518 (2003) approved the removal of the four entries specified below from its List of Individuals and Entities subject to the assets freeze set out by paragraph 23 of Security Council resolution 1483 (2003) adopted under Chapter VII of the Charter of the United Nations:

NEW YORK, 30 August 2016 (Joint Investigative Mechanism) — The Security Council considered the third report (document S/2016/738) of the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW)‑United Nations Joint Investigative Mechanism, pursuant to resolution 2235 (2015). 

Following are UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s remarks, as prepared for delivery, upon receiving an honorary Doctor of Letters from the National University of Singapore, in Singapore today:

Following is UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s message on the International Day of the Victims of Enforced Disappearances, observed today:

NEW YORK, 30 August (Division for Ocean Affairs and the Law of the Sea) ― The Commission on the Limits of the Continental Shelf held its forty-first session at United Nations Headquarters from 11 July to 26 August.\