Following are UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s remarks at a panel discussion on the International Criminal Court, in New York today, 30 April:

Following is text of UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s message to the thirtieth Ministerial Meeting of the United Nations Standing Advisory Committee on Security Questions in Central Africa, delivered in French by Sahle-Work Zewde, Special Representative and Head of the United Nations Integrated Peacebuilding Office in the Central African Republic, in Kinshasa today, 30 April:

While indigenous peoples made undeniable contributions to humanity’s cultural diversity, representatives of aboriginal and native groups appealed today for help from the United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues, saying they still faced systemic discrimination and exclusion from political and economic power, forced ejection from their ancestral lands, and depredation from profit-hungry corporations bent on destroying their life-giving forests.

Following is the text of Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s remarks to the Second Conference of States Parties and Signatories to Treaties that Establish Nuclear-Weapon-Free Zones and Mongolia, in New York today, 30 April:

Stressing that prevailing development paradigms had often destroyed the political, economic and spiritual systems of indigenous peoples, the Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues closed its ninth session today adopting its draft report, which, among other things, urged the United Nations to support indigenous peoples’ efforts to formulate their own development models based on concepts “underpinned by indigenous cosmologies, philosophies, values, cultures and identities”.

In conjunction with the 2010 Review Conference of the Parties to the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons taking place at the United Nations from 3 to 28 May, the exhibit “Putting an End to Nuclear Explosions” will open in the Main Gallery of the Visitors’ Lobby on Tuesday, 4 May at 6 p.m.

Calling on Morocco and the Popular Front for the Liberation of Saguia el-Hamra and Rio de Oro to adhere fully to the military agreements reached with the United Nations Mission for the Referendum in Western Sahara, the Security Council today extended the mandate of that Mission until 30 April 2011.

International television programming and films focusing on issues of importance to the United Nations will be honoured on today at the New York Festivals Television and Film Awards Gala at the American Airlines Theater in New York City.

Following is the text of UN Secretary-GeneralBan Ki-moon’s video message for the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea in Action: Tunisia — a Kerkennah Fisherman Office of Legal Affairs DVD for the Shanghai World Expo, broadcast on 1 May:

Following is the text of UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s video message for the United Nations Pavilion at Expo 2010, “One World, One UN”, in Shanghai, 1 May-31 October: