United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has appointed Virginia Gamba of Argentina to head the independent three-member panel to be set up to lead the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons-United Nations Joint Investigative Mechanism established by Security Council resolution 2235 (2015) on the use of chemicals as weapons in Syria.

Following is UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s message for the launch of the exhibition: “Water for Life” at the Nehru Science Centre, in Mumbai, India, today:

Following are UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s remarks, as prepared for delivery, at the Church of the Holy Family, in New York today:

Following are UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s remarks at the closing of the sixty-ninth session of the General Assembly, in New York today:

Following are UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s remarks at the award ceremony for the UN Energy Grant, in New York today:

Concluding its sixty-ninth session, the General Assembly this afternoon adopted one resolution and heard closing remarks that highlighted the unique vision of the 2030 agenda and the year’s other major accomplishments.

Following is UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s video message to the fifty-ninth regular session of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) General Conference, in Vienna, today:

The Secretary-General, speaking at the award ceremony for the United Nations Energy Grant, said that energy underpins common efforts to achieve development objectives — from reducing extreme poverty to enhancing food security, powering essential health services and providing electricity for education.

Following is UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s message for the International Day of Peace, 21 September:

Following is UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s video message for the opening of the twenty-first session of the World Tourism Organization General Assembly, held in Medellin, Colombia, 12 to 17 September: