Secretary-General: Press Release

In accordance with the relevant provisions of the Security Council resolution 1757 (2007) on the establishment of the Special Tribunal for Lebanon and its Annex, as well as the Statute of the Special Tribunal attached thereto, United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has appointed Norman Farrell of Canada as the Prosecutor of the Special Tribunal for Lebanon.

United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has decided to appoint Judge Theodor Meron of the United States as President of the International Residual Mechanism for Criminal Tribunals for a term of four years effective 1 March 2012.

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

Following is UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s message to the “Board of Boards CEO Conference”, delivered by Georg Kell, Executive Director of the United Nations Global Compact, in New York on 27 February:

Following is UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s message to the tenth plenary meeting of the Leading Group on Innovative Financing for Development, in Madrid on 27 February:

Following are UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s remarks at the Polio Vaccination Campaign Health Post in Luanda, Angola, on 27 February:

Following is UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s message to the Jerusalem International Forum, delivered by Robert Serry, United Nations Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process, Representative of the Secretary-General to the Palestine Liberation Organization and the Palestinian Authority, and the Secretary-General’s Envoy to the Quartet, in Doha, 26 February:

Following are UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s remarks at the Olympic Youth Development Centre in Lusaka on 25 February:

Following are UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s remarks at the Fountain of Hope in Kamwala, Zambia, on 25 February:

The following statement was issued on 24 February by the Spokesperson for UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon: