Following is UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s message, delivered by Kim Won-soo, Under-Secretary-General United Nations High Representative for Disarmament Affairs, to the annual North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) Conference on Weapons of Mass Destruction Arms Control, Disarmament and Non‑Proliferation, in Ljubljana today:

Following are UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s remarks, as prepared for delivery, at a Sustainable Development Goals event, in Mauritius, today:

The Independent Audit Advisory Committee of the United Nations (IAAC) held its thirty-fourth session from 4 to 6 May at United Nations Headquarters in New York.

The twenty-ninth Session of the United Nations Group of Experts on Geographical Names concluded on 29 April at the United Nations Conference Centre in Bangkok.

Following is UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s address to the National Assembly of the Seychelles, in Victoria today:

The investigators of the Joint Investigative Mechanism, mandated to identify those responsible for the use of chemical weapons in Syria, pursuant to Security Council resolution 2235 (2015), visited Damascus last week.

Closing its thirty-eighth session this afternoon, the Committee on Information unanimously approved a report relaying two draft resolutions to the General Assembly, with a focus as in years past on increased multilingualism and support for the communications capabilities of developing countries.

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

The current El Niño was among the most intense weather patterns of the last 100 years, affecting the food security of 60 million people and requiring nearly $3 billion in humanitarian response, the Economic and Social Council heard today amid calls to mobilize global action by promoting early warning mechanisms, building capacity, investing in disaster risk reduction and enhancing resilience.

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