Touting the United Nations ambitious projects in information and communications technology development and enterprise resource planning as the “engine and enabler” of the Organization’s reform and strengthening, the Deputy Secretary-General urged delegates in the Fifth Committee (Administrative and Budgetary) today to supply the necessary funds to implement them.

“A historic moment is before Member States to act, to uphold their legal obligations and the United Nations Charter,” declared the Permanent Observer of Palestine today, as he challenged the General Assembly to rectify the injustice that had uprooted millions of Palestinians from their homeland and had led to nearly 65 years of Israeli occupation.

Following is UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s message for the art exhibit on Palestinian cultural heritage sites and artefacts, in New York, 29 November:

Following is UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s message for World AIDS Day, observed on 1 December:

On 30 November 2011, the Security Council Committee pursuant to resolutions 1267 (1999) and 1989 (2011) amended the entry specified below to its Al-Qaida Sanctions List of individuals and entities subject to the assets freeze, travel ban and arms embargo set out in paragraph 1 of Security Council resolution 1989 (2011) adopted under Chapter VII of the Charter of the United Nations:

Following are UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s remarks, as delivered, to the Fourth High-Level Forum on Aid Effectiveness, in Busan, Republic of Korea, on 30 November:

Following are UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s remarks, as delivered, to the Private Sector Forum at the Fourth High-Level Forum on Aid Effectiveness, in Busan, Republic of Korea, 30 November:

Stressing that popular uprisings across the Middle East were demanding greater inclusiveness and democracy, General Assembly delegates called today for peace and justice — as well as “re-energized” efforts to resolve old regional conflicts — to reign across the region, as it adopted six related resolutions. By six recorded votes, the Assembly adopted resolutions on both the “Question of Palestine” and on the wider “Situation in the Middle East”.

Improving transparency, interaction with non-Security Council Member States and the efficiency of its activities were some of the issues addressed by speakers during a day-long debate in the chamber today on the body’s working methods — the fourth ever held on the subject.

Following is the text of UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s video message to the Global Forum on Migration and Development taking place in Geneva on 1‑2 December: