SECRETARY-GENERAL WELCOMES ADOPTION OF IRAQ PROVINCIAL ELECTION LAW

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

Secretary-General, addressing side event, spells out areas ‘crying out for action’

to advance implementation of water and sanitation agenda

 

SECRETARY-GENERAL REMARKS AT PRESS CONFERENCE ON PROGRAMME

 

TO REDUCE DEFORESTATION IN DEVELOPING COUNTRIES

 

SECRETARY-GENERAL’S REMARKS AT PRESS CONFERENCE ON CLIMATE CHANGE

SECRETARY-GENERAL WELCOMES MYANMAR’S RELEASE OF POLITICAL PRISONERS

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

Secretary-General, addressing ministerial disarmament meeting, rejects pessimistic

view of Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty’s entry into force

ALLIANCE OF CIVILIZATIONS PLAYS KEY ROLE IN PREVENTIVE DIPLOMACY BY ADDRESSING

CONDITIONS THAT FOSTER EXTREMISM, SECRETARY-GENERAL TELLS GROUP OF FRIENDS

SECRETARY-GENERAL CALLS ON MEMBER STATES TO INVEST ‘UP FRONT’ IN QUIET DIPLOMACY;

URGES SECURITY COUNCIL TO PROVIDE MEDIATION WITH SAME SUPPORT AS PEACEKEEPING

SECRETARY-GENERAL SAYS NATIONS CAN NO LONGER PROTECT INTERESTS, ADVANCE WELL-BEING

OF THEIR PEOPLE, WITHOUT PARTNERSHIP OF THE REST, AT GENERAL DEBATE’S OPENING

SECRETARY-GENERAL, IN MESSAGE FOR WORLD HABITAT DAY, CALLS ON EVERYONE TO ENSURE

THAT DECENT LIVING CONDITIONS FOR ALL PROMOTE GREENER, SMARTER GROWTH

Following is UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s message for World Habitat Day, 6 October: