Secretary-General: Press Release

United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has appointed Catherine Pollard of Guyana, Under-Secretary-General for General Assembly and Conference Management, as the new Coordinator for Multilingualism, in implementation of General Assembly resolution 69/250.  In this role, Ms. Pollard is responsible for coordinating the overall implementation of multilingualism Secretariat-wide.  This appointment is made pursuant to General Assembly resolutions 54/64 of 1999 and 61/266 of 2007 on the appointment of a senior official as coordinator of questions relating to multilingualism.

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 to the Security Council meeting of Finance Ministers on countering the financing of terrorism, in New York today:

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

Following is UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s message, delivered by Wu Hongbo, Under-Secretary-General for Economic and Social Affairs, to the second World Internet Conference, in Wuzhen, China, today:

Following is UN Secretary‑General Ban Ki‑moon’s message for International Human Solidarity Day, observed on 20 December:

Following is UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s message on International Migrants Day, observed on 18 December:

Following is UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s message to an event today in Birmingham, United Kingdom, marking the one-year anniversary of the attack on the Army Public School in Peshawar, Pakistan:

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 to the General Assembly on the outcome of the twenty-first Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (COP21), in New York today: