Following is UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s message to the meeting of Ibero-American Ministers of Foreign Affairs, delivered by Alicia Bárcena, Executive Secretary of the United Nations Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean, in New York, 22 September:

Following is UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s closing remarks to the High-level Meeting on Nuclear Safety and Security, in New York, 22 September:

Following are UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s remarks to the high-level symposium on South Africa’s contribution to the fight against racism and xenophobia, in New York on 22 September:

Following are UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s remarks at the Security Council high-level meeting on preventive diplomacy, in New York on 22 September:

Following are UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s remarks to the mini-summit on cooperation with Member States on preventing and responding to sexual violence in conflict, in New York on 22 September:

Following are UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s remarks at the commemorative event “Dag Hammarskjöld’s Legacy for UN Preventive Diplomacy in the Twenty-first Century” in New York on 22 September:

In a meeting addressed by the Secretary-General along with Heads of State and Government and other high officials of its members, the Security Council this afternoon expressed its determination to enhance the effectiveness of the United Nations in preventing the eruption of armed conflicts, their escalation or spread when they occur and their resurgence once they end.

Acting to bolster global resolve to combat racism, the United Nations today adopted a Declaration aimed at mobilizing political support to end all forms of racial discrimination and related intolerance, and to place victims at the centre of measures to promote equal opportunity, openness and inclusion.

In a year of clarion calls for reform in the Middle East and North Africa that truly reflected peoples’ aspirations, the United Nations must not miss the “massive” opportunity presented by the so-called Arab Spring to act, whether by providing aid to famine-stricken countries, helping to mediate crises or standing up to regimes that persecuted their people, world leaders said today as the General Assembly moved into day two of its annual general debate.

Following are UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s remarks, as prepared for delivery, at a breakfast round table with Foreign Ministers, on “The Responsibility to Protect: Responding to Imminent Threats of Mass Atrocities”, in New York on 23 September: