UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon will host a press conference on 5 November to receive the final report of his High-Level Advisory Group on Climate Change Financing from the Co-chairs, Prime Minister Meles Zenawi of Ethiopia and Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg of Norway. The event is scheduled for 9:15 a.m. in the Dag Hammarskjold Library Auditorium at United Nations Headquarters in New York.

Following is the text of UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s message for the International Day for Preventing the Exploitation of the Environment in War and Armed Conflict, 6 November:

On 3 November 2010, the Security Council Al-Qaida and Taliban Sanctions Committee approved the addition of the two entries specified below to its Consolidated List of individuals and entities subject to the assets freeze, travel ban and arms embargo set out in paragraph 1 of Security Council resolution 1904 (2009) adopted under Chapter VII of the Charter of the United Nations.

Following is the text of UN Secretary-General’s remarks at the commemoration of World Food Day, today, 4 November, in New York:

The Fifth Committee (Administrative and Budgetary) today considered the financing needs of the United Nations Mission in the Central African Republic and Chad (MINURCAT), as the Mission prepared to wind down its operations by year’s end and liquefy millions of dollars in assets.

Following is the text of UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s remarks at the launch of the United Nations Trust Fund for Victims of Trafficking, today, 4 November, in New York:

Following is the text of UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s remarks at the launch of the twentieth Human Development Report, today, 4 November, in New York:

At a special ceremony today in observance of the 2010 World Food Day on the theme “United against Hunger”, Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said that in a world of plenty, the world’s food systems were failing the most vulnerable. Calling for the world’s food systems to be “fixed” in order to meet that internationally agreed development target, he said achieving that would lift up whole societies and help achieve all of the other Goals.

A media relations campaign aimed at encouraging Kenyans to participate in the country’s 2009 population census has been chosen for the 2010 United Nations Grand Award for outstanding achievement in public relations. The award will be presented by the Director of the United Nations Regional Information Centre for Western Europe at a ceremony on Friday, 5 November, at the Merchant Taylors’ Hall in London, as part of the International Public Relations Association's 2010 Golden World Awards.

Reiterating the urgent need to tackle the interconnected challenges in Afghanistan – from increased extremist violence, to the development of sound institutions and strong democratic processes - the General Assembly today adopted by consensus a broad based resolution appealing to the international community for continued support for a coherent, Afghan-driven strategy that would help the Government keep the war-torn country on the road to recovery.