The following Security Council press statement was issued today by Council President Ismael Abraão Gaspar Martins (Angola):

Following are UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon’s remarks at the special event commemorating the twentieth anniversary of the United Nations offices in Bonn, in Bonn, Germany, today:

In his message for International Women’s Day, the Secretary-General said that we can only address gender inequality by empowering women as agents of change.  He called on the world to devote solid funding, courageous advocacy and unbending political will to achieving gender equality around the world.

As the Fifth Committee (Administrative and Budgetary) considered the topic of accountability today in its review of the Organization’s efficiency in administrative and financial functioning, speakers welcomed achievements and acknowledged areas where further progress was needed.

Following is UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s message to the Next Einstein Forum, in Dakar today:

Following is UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s message, delivered by Yury Fedotov, Executive Director of the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC), to the International Anti-Corruption Academy (IACA), in Laxenberg, Austria, today:

Following is the text of UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s video message on International Women’s Day, observed today:

NEW YORK, 8 March (Office for Disarmament Affairs) — The United Nations Regional Centre for Peace and Disarmament in Asia and the Pacific, in cooperation with the Government of Thailand, will organize a national workshop on “Building Capacity in Small Arms and Light Weapons Control through the United Nations Programme of Action to Prevent, Combat and Eradicate the Illicit Trade in Small Arms and Light Weapons in all Its Aspects and the Arms Trade Treaty” from 9 to 10 March, in Bangkok. 

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, as prepared for delivery, at the Fifth General Assembly of the 2010 Kigali International Conference Declaration, in Algiers today: