NEW YORK, 23 October (Office for Disarmament Affairs) — With the aim of increasing awareness of the need for nuclear disarmament, the United Nations Office for Disarmament Affairs is sponsoring a global United Nations “Poster for Peace” contest, inviting citizens all over the world to join in and use their artistic talents to help promote a world free of nuclear weapons.
NEW YORK, 12 October (Office for Disarmament Affairs) — The annual United Nations Disarmament Fellowship Programme will commence its final segment today at United Nations Headquarters in New York.
Following are UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s remarks to the General Assembly meeting on the International Day for the Total Elimination of Nuclear Weapons, in New York today:
Following are UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s remarks to the ninth Conference on Facilitating Entry into Force of the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty (CTBT), in New York today:
United Nations Secretary-General, Ban Ki-moon, addressing the Conference on Facilitating the Entry into Force of the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty (CTBT) today, said he was determined to live up to his name — “Ban” — and ban nuclear tests as an essential component of ridding the world of those weapons.
The following statement was issued today by the Spokesman for UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon:
The International Day against Nuclear Tests will be observed on 10 September at United Nations Headquarters. This year’s official opening ceremony, marked by an informal meeting, will be convened by the President of the sixty-ninth session of the General Assembly, Sam Kutesa, and organized in cooperation with the Permanent Mission of the Republic of Kazakhstan.
Following is UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s message to the first Review Conference of the Convention on Cluster Munitions, delivered by Virginia Gamba, Director and Deputy to the UN High Representative for Disarmament Affairs, in Dubrovnik, Croatia, today:
The following statement was issued today by the Spokesman for UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon:
Following is the text of UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s video message for the twenty-fifth United Nations Conference on Disarmament Issues, in Hiroshima City, Japan, 26-28 August:
