Following are UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s remarks at the High-level Meeting on Libya, today, 20 September, in New York:

An international framework to control non-communicable diseases must include broad factors and actors at every level, speakers said this morning at the final round table at the high-level meeting of the General Assembly on the threat.

Following are UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s remarks at the high-level event on Scaling Up Nutrition, today, 20 September, in New York:

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 Appeal of Conscience Foundation annual awards dinner, in New York, 20 September:

Following are UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s remarks at the Every Woman, Every Child event in New York, 20 September:

Too often seen as a “lost cause”, the world’s drylands — home to 2 billion people — must be placed higher on the international agenda as poor land management, climate change and conflict threatened to jeopardize hard-won gains in painstaking national efforts to reduce poverty and improve development prospects, top United Nations and other officials said today during the High-level Meeting of the General Assembly to address desertification, land degradation and drought.

Addressing the General Assembly’s two-day summit on non-communicable diseases this afternoon as it drew to a close, Michael Bloomberg, Mayor of the City of New York, implored Governments worldwide to adopt the type of public policies and strategies that had enabled his administration to reduce deadly chronic illnesses and promote healthy lifestyles among the city’s 8.4 million people.

Following are UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s remarks introducing his report on the work of the Organization, “We the Peoples”, to the General Assembly, in New York on 21 September:

The United Nations and the Government of Saudi Arabia have signed a contribution agreement for the creation of the United Nations Centre for Counter-Terrorism, to which the latter will contribute $10 million over three years.