On 22 January 2011, the Security Council Al-Qaida and Taliban Sanctions Committee approved the deletion (de-listing) of the two entries specified below from its Consolidated List.

Real Madrid goalkeeper Iker Casillas, along with Special Adviser to the United Nations Secretary-General on Sport for Development and Peace, Wilfried Lemke, today launched the new comic book Score the Goals: Teaming Up to Achieve the Millennium Development Goals, at the United Nations in Geneva.

As the United Nations Forum on Forests began its ninth session today, the world body’s top development official stressed the need for a people-centred approach to managing forest lands, which would take into account not only their environmental riches but also their economic, social and cultural value.

Following are UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s remarks to the Humanitarian Funding Conference in Geneva today, 25 January:

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

Following are UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s remarks to the Human Rights Council in Geneva today, 25 January:

As pirates tightened their grip in the waters off the Somali coast and surrounding Indian Ocean, the Secretary-General’s top adviser on the legal issues related to that menace proposed a series of far-reaching measures to the Security Council today on how to lift the legal constraints to prosecute and imprison the pirates and criminalize their sea-borne raids in all States.

The ninth session of the United Nations Forum on Forests continued today with resounding calls for the empowerment of local communities — including indigenous and other vulnerable groups — to participate in forest governance.

United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon is pleased to announce the appointment of Kiran Mehra-Kerpelman as Director of the United Nations Information Centre (UNIC) in New Delhi, India. She will assume her new duties on 1 February 2011.

Following are UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s remarks to the Conference on Disarmament in Geneva today, 26 January: