Press Release

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

Following are UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s remarks, as prepared for delivery, at the meeting with Argentinian youth and civil society leaders hosted by Horacio Rodriguez Larreta, Mayor of Buenos Aires, today:

Following is UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s message, delivered by Gyan Chandra Acharya, High Representative for the Least Developed Countries, Landlocked Developing Countries and Small Island Developing States, to the high-level symposium on Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 6 and target ensuring that no one is left behind in access to water and sanitation, in Dushanbe, Tajikistan, today:

Following is UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s message, delivered by Kim Won-soo, High Representative for Disarmament Affairs, to the Peace Memorial Ceremony in Nagasaki, Japan, today:

Following are UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s remarks at the opening of the UN-Women office in Buenos Aires today:

The following Security Council press statement was issued today by Council President Ramlan Bin Ibrahim (Malaysia):

This year, the International Day of the World’s Indigenous Peoples (9 August) is devoted to indigenous peoples' right to education, given the persistent gaps between indigenous and non-indigenous students in terms of access to education, school retention and graduation rates in all regions of the world.

Following is UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s message for the International Day of the World’s Indigenous Peoples, observed on 9 August:

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

Following are UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s remarks at the Argentine Council for Foreign Relations, in Buenos Aires today: