On 13 October 2014, the members of the Security Council Committee established pursuant to resolution 1970 (2011) concerning Libya agreed to issue additional guidance, as indicated below, to Member States, international organizations and private actors on arms embargo related matters.

Following is UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s message for the International Day of Rural Women, to be observed on 15 October:

Following is UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s message on World Food Day, to be observed 16 October:

Following is UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s message to the forty-first session of the Committee on World Food Security, delivered by Thomas Gass, Assistant Secretary-General for Policy Coordination and Inter-agency Affairs, in Rome today:

Following is the text of UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s video message to the World Investment Forum today:

Following is the text of UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s video message to the 131^st Assembly of the Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU), held in Geneva from 12‑16 October:

Following are UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s remarks to the International Conference on Palestine, in Cairo today:

Following are UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s remarks in Tripoli on 11 October:

As the Sixth Committee (Legal) took up the report of the United Nations Commission on International Trade Law (UNCITRAL), the Chair of that Commission’s forty-seventh session highlighted the finalization and approval of a draft Convention on Transparency in Treaty-based Investor-State Arbitration.

As the African continent moved towards greater integration, the Western Sahara “weighs heavily” on the Maghreb region, the Fourth Committee (Special Political and Decolonization) heard today as it concluded its general debate on decolonization, with calls for enhanced cooperation between the Special Committee and administering Powers.