Following are UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s remarks at a side event of the United Nations Development Group (UNDG), “From global conversation to global action:  making the SDGs work”, in New York today:

Following are UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s remarks at the summit for the adoption of the post-2015 development agenda, in New York today:

World leaders today embraced a sweeping 15-year global plan of action to end poverty, reduce inequalities and protect the environment, known as the Sustainable Development Goals, at the opening of a United Nations special summit.

The achievements of the United Nations in the past 70 years were lights which helped to dispel the darkness of the disorder caused by unrestrained ambitions and collective forms of selfishness, said Pope Francis today, in a historic address to the General Assembly.

Following are UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s remarks to the General Assembly on the occasion of the visit by His Holiness Pope Francis, in New York today:

Following are UN Deputy Secretary-General Jan Eliasson’s remarks at the International Conference on Sustainable Development, in New York on 23 September:

Following are UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s remarks at the meeting of United Nations staff with His Holiness Pope Francis, in New York today:

The following Security Council press statement was issued today by Council President Vitaly I. Churkin (Russian Federation):

Following is UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s message for an event entitled “Cities Driving Sustainable Development:  Endorsing the SDGs and Committing to their Implementation”, delivered by Dr. Joan Clos, Executive Director of UN-Habitat, in New York today:

Following is UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s message for the Appeal of Conscience Foundation World Statesman Award Ceremony, in New York today: