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

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.

Outgoing members of the Security Council — Chad, Jordan, Lithuania, Chile and Nigeria — briefed the 15-member body today on their work during their two-year tenure as Chairs of various subsidiary bodies, sharing their highlights, concerns and recommendations.

Following is UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s message, delivered by Mohamed Ibn Chambas, Special Representative of the Secretary-General and Head of the United Nations Office for West Africa (UNOWA), on the occasion of the fortieth anniversary of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS), in Abuja, today:

Following are UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s remarks at the high-level event marking the tenth anniversary of the Central Emergency Response Fund (CERF), in New York, today:

The Security Council today deplored all acts of trafficking in human beings by Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL/Da’esh), the Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA), Boko Haram and other terrorist groups, underscoring that certain acts associated with that practice in the context of armed conflict might constitute war crimes.

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 are UN Deputy Secretary-General Jan Eliasson's remarks at the Security Council meeting on trafficking in persons in situations of conflict, in New York today:

The General Assembly today reaffirmed its common desire and commitment to the vision of the World Summit on the Information Society to build a people-centred, inclusive and development-oriented information society, as the 193-member body concluded its two-day high-level meeting reviewing the summit outcomes.