The security situation in Libya remained “precarious”, amid violent protests over the presence of armed groups and mounting discontent with a protracted political process, the senior United Nations official in the country told the Security Council today, underlining the importance of national dialogue in producing a shared vision for the future.

Following are UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s remarks at the Nelson Mandela Centre of Memory in Johannesburg today:

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

Following is UN Secretary-General Ban Ki‑moon’s message, delivered by Said Djinnit, Special Representative of the Secretary-General for West Africa, to the fortieth session of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) Council of Foreign Ministers in Conakry, Guinea, today:

Following are UN Secretary-General Ban Ki‑moon’s remarks, delivered by Deputy Secretary-General Jan Eliasson, on the occasion of International Anti-Corruption Day, at a high-level plenary on “The Role of Good Governance”, in New York on 9 December:

Four of its five outgoing members — Azerbaijan, Guatemala, Morocco and Pakistan — briefed the Security Council this afternoon on the work of the subsidiary bodies they had chaired during their two-year tenure, highlighting significant gains made and the challenges ahead.

It was urgent for the world to come together to sustainably safeguard the health of its oceans, which covered two thirds of the Earth’s surface, connected 90 per cent of the population, provided 350 million jobs, and had 1 billion people in developing countries dependent on the fish those waters yielded, delegates in the General Assembly heard today prior to adopting two related draft resolutions.

Following are UN Secretary-General Ban Ki‑moon’s remarks, as delivered by Deputy Secretary-General Jan Eliasson, at an event marking the sixty-fifth anniversary of the adoption of the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide, in New York on 9 December:

Following are UN Secretary-General Ban Ki‑moon’s remarks at the memorial ceremony for Nelson Mandela, in Johannesburg on 10 December:

After 22 years of conflict, the people of Somalia were not only ready, but desperate to rise to the challenge of building strong State institutions, the senior United Nations official in that country said in a briefing to the Security Council today.