Following is the text of UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s video message to the United Nations Association of the United States-United Nations Foundation Global Leadership Awards Dinner, in New York, 6 November:

Following are UN Deputy Secretary-General Jan Eliasson’s remarks at the election of the new Chair of the Group of 77, in New York on 7 November:

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

Resuming its 2013 substantive session, the Economic and Social Council met this morning to fill vacant seats in its subsidiary bodies and to take action on draft proposals.

The Bureau of the Committee on the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People issued the following statement today, 7 November:

United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon announced today the appointment of Juan Somavía of Chile, former Director-General of the International Labour Organization (ILO), as his Special Adviser on Interregional Policy Cooperation.

Overhaul of the Security Council must include streamlined working methods and a broader, more representative membership that reflected geopolitical realities and prepared the body to fulfil its mandate of maintaining global peace and security, said delegates as the General Assembly began its debate on Council reform.

The text of the Secretary-General’s remarks during his meeting with Idriss Deby Itno, President of the Republic of Chad, are not available in English.

The Third Committee (Social, Humanitarian and Cultural) approved three draft resolutions today, including one addressing the needs of women in rural areas and another highlighting the twentieth anniversary of the International Year of the Family to be observed in 2014.

Following is UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s message on the twentieth anniversary of Transparency International, in Berlin, 8 November: