Following are UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s remarks at the Roosevelt House ribbon-cutting ceremony in New York, 15 November:

The General Assembly, gravely concerned by the critical humanitarian situation and socio-economic conditions of the Palestine refugees in the Gaza Strip, and underlining the importance of emergency assistance and urgent reconstruction efforts, would decide to extend the mandate of UNRWA until 30 June 2014, by one of nine draft texts approved today by the Fourth Committee, as it concluded the bulk of its work for the main part of the session.

Following is UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s message on the World Day of Remembrance for Road Traffic Victims, observed 21 November:

The United Nations Department of Public Information will co-sponsor the International Conference on Anti-Semitism and Holocaust Denial to be held on 18 and 19 November 2010 in Dublin, Ireland.

The United Nations appointed Disney actress and youth activist Monique Coleman as a “Youth Champion” for the International Year of Youth at a Headquarters press conference today.

Following are UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s remarks at the opening of the exhibit “Facing Nations”, at Headquarters in New York, 15 November:

Following is the text of UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s remarks to the Security Council, today, 16 November:

Concerned about the extreme social and economic disadvantages that indigenous peoples have faced, the Third Committee approved a draft resolution today that would have the General Assembly organize a high-level plenary meeting in 2014 — to be known as the World Conference on Indigenous Peoples in 2014 -- to share perspectives and best practices on the realization of indigenous peoples’ rights.

Even though it suffered its first actuarial setback in 14 years during the biennium that closed in December 2009, the United Nations Joint Staff Pension Fund bounced back from the turmoil in global financial markets to post a 32.2 per cent jump in assets to $38.3 billion by March 2010, Secretariat officials told the Fifth Committee today.

Emphasizing that the situation in Sudan represented one of the most urgent challenges facing the Security Council, the 15-member body, convening at the ministerial level, underlined today that full and timely implementation of the Comprehensive Peace Agreement (CPA), including the holding of referenda on the self-determination of Southern Sudan and the status of Abyei, was essential to national as well as regional peace and stability.