The following statement was issued by the spokesperson for UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today:
Following is UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s message to the 2015 Hiroshima-Nagasaki Appeal Assembly, in New York today:
Describing a nuclear-weapon-free world as a “critical global public good”, United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon urged the international community to work towards ensuring that the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) retained its central role in collective security, as the month-long ninth Review Conference of that accord began at Headquarters today.
Indigenous peoples lived in situations of extreme social and economic disadvantage, speakers in the Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues said today, pressing Governments to improve their access to basic services, respect their traditional livelihoods, and both return — and protect — the sacred lands on which their survival depended.
The story of celebrated conductor Arturo Toscanini’s opposition to fascism and Nazism during the Second World War will be told at United Nations Headquarters on Tuesday, 28 April 2015 at 6:30 p.m.
During a “once-in-a-generation” year which would see the adoption of the new post-2015 development agenda, the United Nations Department of Public Information had a critical role to play in supporting the ever-expanding activities of the Organization, the Committee on Information was told as it opened its thirty‑seventh session today.
Following are UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s remarks on board the Italian naval ship San Giusto in Sicily, Italy, today:
The Secretary-General transmitted today to the Security Council and other bodies the public summary of the Board of Inquiry regarding incidents affecting United Nations personnel, premises and operations in the Gaza Strip during the recent conflict.
The new Permanent Representative of the United Kingdom to the United Nations, Matthew Rycroft, presented his credentials to Deputy Secretary-General Jan Eliasson today.
Following is UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon's message to the opening plenary of the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons, as delivered by Deputy Secretary-General Jan Eliasson, in New York today:
