Following is UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s message for World Day to Combat Desertification, to be observed on 17 June:

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

The General Assembly today elected by acclamation Sam Kutesa, Minister for Foreign Affairs of Uganda, as President of its sixty-ninth session.

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

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

With some United Nations peacekeeping operations deployed in increasingly hostile environments, battling asymmetric unconventional threats where there was no peace to keep and no viable political process upon which to build, speakers in the Security Council today wrestled with the potentially injurious implications of “robust” mandates for the peacekeepers themselves.

Following is UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s message, as delivered by Zainab Hawa Bangura, Special Representative, to the Global Summit to End Sexual Violence in Conflict, in London on 12 June:

Following is UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s message, as delivered by Tomas Anker Christensen, Senior Partnerships Adviser, Executive Office of the Secretary-General, to the GLOBE International Second World Summit of Legislators, in Mexico City, 6 June:

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

Meeting to consider the question of Puerto Rico, the Special Committee on Decolonization called again upon the United States today to expedite a process that would allow Puerto Ricans to fully exercise their inalienable right to self-determination and independence.