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Statements and Messages

10 September 2012

SG/SM/14498

Secretary-General, Marking Historic Donation to League of Nations Library, Hails Rockefeller Foundation’s ‘Global Philanthropy’

Following are UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s remarks on the eighty-fifth anniversary of the donation by John D. Rockefeller to endow the League of Nations Library, in Geneva, 10 September:

10 September 2012

SG/SM/14497-HRC/14

Secretary-General Cites Sexual-Orientation Bias, Women’s Empowerment among Challenges Requiring Human Rights Council’s Attention

Following are UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s remarks to the Human Rights Council in Geneva, 10 September:

10 September 2012

SG/SM/14496-DC/3390

Success at Second Review Conference Will Boost Efforts to Tackle Wide Availability of Illicit Small Arms, Light Weapons, Says Secretary-General

The following statement was issued on 8 September by the Spokesperson for UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon:

7 September 2012

SG/SM/14495-AFR/2437

Military Force Not Key to Crisis in Democratic Republic of Congo, Secretary-General Tells Meeting, Urging Strengthened Dialogue

Following is UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s message, to be delivered by Abou Moussa, Special Representative and Head of the United Nations Regional Office for Central Africa (UNOCA), to the mini-Summit of the International Conference on the Great Lakes Region, in Kampala on 7-8 September:

6 September 2012

SG/SM/14494-GA/11273-OBV/1135

Secretary-General, in Message on International Day against Nuclear Tests, Offers to Visit Any State Remaining Unconvinced of Reliability of Test-Ban Treaty

Following is the text of UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s video message for the General Assembly observance of the International Day against Nuclear Tests, in New York on 6 September:

6 September 2012

SG/SM/14493-ENV/DEV/1317

Secretary-General, in Message to World Conservation Congress, Says Combination of Science, Passion Needed to Translate Rio Commitments into Lasting Legacy

Following is the text of UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s video message to the fifth International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources (IUCN) World Conservation Congress, held in Jeju Province, Republic of Korea, 6-15 September:

5 September 2012

SG/SM/14492

Secretary-General Concerned at Harsh Sentencing of 20 Bahraini Political Activists

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

5 September 2012

SG/SM/14491-EN/271

Commending World Bank’s Support of Tajikistan in Tackling Energy Challenges, Secretary-General Encourages Water Management Agreement in Central Asia

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

5 September 2012

SG/SM/14490-GA/11271

Responsibility to Protect Faces Urgent Test ‘Here and Now’, Secretary-General Tells General Assembly, Stressing Immense Human Cost of Failure in Syria

Following are UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s remarks to the General Assembly’s informal interactive dialogue on “The Responsibility to Protect: Timely and Decisive Response”, in New York on 5 September:

5 September 2012

SG/SM/14489

Secretary-General, at Exhibit Opening, Says Sculptures by Wu Weishan Embody ‘Not Just the Soul of a Nation, but of All Humanity’

Following are UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s remarks, as prepared for delivery, at the opening of an exhibit of artist Wu Weishan, in New York, 4 September: