Following is UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s video message for the Winter Olympic Games, 7 February:

Following is UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s message, as delivered by Michael Møller, Acting Director-General of the United Nations Office at Geneva, to the commemoration ceremony on the adoption of the Constitution of the Republic of Tunisia and the third anniversary of the Revolution of Dignity, 7 February:

Following is UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s message for World Radio Day, 13 February:

Following are UN Deputy Secretary-General Jan Eliasson’s remarks at a side event to the eighth session of the Open Working Group on the Sustainable Development Goals: Measuring the Rule of Law and the Post-2015 Development Agenda, in New York today:

Following are Deputy Secretary-General Jan Eliasson’s closing remarks to the event entitled “Democracy, Governance and the Post-2015 Development Agenda”, in New York, today, 7 February:

While significant efforts had been made since 2011 to realize pledges to prevent and control non-communicable diseases, progress had been “insufficient” and “highly uneven”, delegates told the General Assembly today, as they weighed priority issues to consider during a comprehensive review of the global situation later this year.

Mali’s National Commission for the Fight against the Proliferation of Small Arms and Light Weapons and the United Nations Regional Centre for Peace and Disarmament in Africa are jointly organizing a workshop in Bamako, from 12 to 14 February, for the validation of the 2014-2018 National Action Plan to combat the proliferation and illicit trafficking of small arms and light weapons.

On 6 February, at its second formal meeting, the Security Council Committee established pursuant to resolution 2127 (2013) concerning the Central African Republic held an exchange of views on the implementation of the arms embargo imposed pursuant to paragraph 54 of the resolution with the representatives to the United Nations of the Central African Republic and its neighbouring States Cameroon, Chad, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Republic of the Congo, South Sudan and Sudan.

Serbia and Kosovo should build on the momentum created during 2013 towards the normalization of relations between them, speakers in the Security Council said today as the 15-member body held its quarterly debate on that situation.