The following statement was issued by the Middle East Quartet (United Nations, Russian Federation, United States, European Union):

On 15 August 2011, the Security Council Committee established pursuant to resolution 1988 (2011) approved the addition of the entry specified below to the Committee’s List (the 1988 List) of individuals and entities subject to the assets freeze, travel ban and arms embargo set out in paragraph 1 of Security Council resolution 1988 (2011):

The eighth anniversary of the bombing of the United Nations headquarters in Baghdad will be observed on Friday, 19 August, at a brief ceremony to be held at 10:15 a.m. in the public lobby of the General Assembly Building, in front of the memorial plaque located outside the Meditation Room.

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

The head of the newly established United Nations Regional Office for Central Africa this morning called on the Security Council to provide ongoing support for its efforts to stem cross-border threats to security in the region such as piracy, illicit small arms traffic, rebel militias and massive refugee returns due to the instability in Libya.

United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today announced the appointment of Ján Kubis of Slovakia as his Special Representative and Head of the United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA).

The following statement was issued on Thursday, 24 November, by the Spokesperson for UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon:

The Committee on the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People will hold a special meeting in observance of the International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People, in Conference Room 2, North Lawn Building, at 10 a.m. on Tuesday, 29 November, in accordance with General Assembly resolution 32/40 B of 2 December 1977.

Following are the remarks, as prepared for delivery, of UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon to the East Asia Summit, delivered in Bali, Indonesia, 19 November: