Following are UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s remarks at the Summit on the Safe and Innovative Use of Nuclear Energy in Kyiv today, 19 April:

Following is UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s message, delivered by Patricia O’Brien, United Nations Legal Counsel and Under-Secretary-General for Legal Affairs, to the event in support of the Trust Fund to Support Initiatives of States Countering Piracy off the Coast of Somalia, in Dubai, today, 19 April:

Following are UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s remarks at the “25 Years after the Chernobyl Catastrophe: Safety for the Future” Conference, in Kyiv, today, 20 April:

Following are UN Deputy Secretary-General Asha-Rose Migiro’s remarks at the General Assembly International Mother Earth Day event on “Harmony with Nature”, in New York, 20 April:

Following the successful completion of the Southern Sudan self-determination referendum, it was imperative to quickly overcome remaining challenges in implementing the Comprehensive Peace Agreement, a senior peacekeeping official told the Security Council today.

The Security Council today extended the mandate of the committee that monitors efforts to prevent weapons of mass destruction from falling into the hands of terrorists and other non-State actors — the so-called 1540 Committee — for 10 years, until 25 April 2021. Unanimously adopting resolution 1977 (2011), the Council requested the Secretary-General to establish a group of up to eight experts to assist the Committee, known formally as the Committee established pursuant to resolution 1540 (2004).

The world’s current economic growth model – characterized by extreme production and consumption, slashed forests, and polluted air and water supplies — was operating at nature’s expense and, while it was not too late to change course and improve our relationship with Mother Earth, “time is running short,” the General Assembly was told today.

With the Darfur peace process moving forward on two fronts — two-year-old negotiations in Doha, Qatar, and newly-launched broad-based political talks under way in Sudan — a senior peacekeeping official told the Security Council today that all efforts should be focused on reaching agreement through the upcoming “All Darfur Stakeholders Conference”, which would be an ideal venue for comprehensively addressing outstanding issues.

A photo exhibition entitled “25 Years after Chernobyl: Cooperation for Sustainable Development” will open with a formal ceremony in the South Gallery of the Visitors Lobby at 2 p.m. on Monday, 25 April.