Following is the text of UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s briefing to the Security Council on the situation in Libya, in New York, 24 March:

The General Assembly, in its resolution 65/37 of 7 December 2010, approved the convening by the Secretary-General of the twenty-seventh session of the Commission on the Limits of the Continental Shelf, in New York from 7 March to 21 April 2011. The periods from 7 to 25 March and from 11 to 21 April are allocated for the technical examination of submissions at the Geographic Information System laboratories and other technical facilities of the Division.

Following is UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s message for World Autism Awareness Day, to be observed on 2 April:

In an extraordinary action today, the Fourth Committee (Special Political and Decolonization) decided to recommend the use of United Nations regular budget funds to bolster the United Nations troubled refugee agency in the Middle East.

Following are UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s remarks at the General Assembly meeting commemorating the International Day of Remembrance of the Victims of Slavery and the Transatlantic Slave Trade, in New York, 25 March:

Following is UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s statement on the international response to the situation at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant in Japan:

The deteriorating security situation in Côte d’Ivoire has had a serious toll on the lives of the West African country’s people, Atul Khare, Assistant-Secretary-General for Peacekeeping Operations, told the Security Council today as he conveyed the request of regional leaders for more stringent measures against recalcitrant former President Laurent Gbagbo.

United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today announced the appointment of Major General Juha Kilpia of Finland as Head of Mission and Chief of Staff of the United Nations Truce Supervision Organization (UNTSO).

United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today announced the appointment of Major General Luiz Eduardo Ramos Pereira of Brazil as Force Commander of the United Nations Stabilization Mission in Haiti.