The following statement was issued on 10 December by the Spokesperson for UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon:

Following are UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s remarks at the launch of the Regional Centre on Transparency, Integrity and Combating Corruption in Doha, Qatar, on 11 December:

Following are UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s remarks at the opening of the Fourth Forum of the United Nations Alliance of Civilizations in Doha, Qatar, on 11 December:

Following are UN Deputy Secretary-General Asha-Rose Migiro’s remarks to the tenth session of the Assembly of States Parties to the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court in New York on 12 December:

Following are UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s remarks, as prepared for delivery, to the fifth meeting of the Global Sustainability Panel, in New York on 13 December:

Following are UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon remarks to the Security Council meeting on Somalia in New York on 13 December:

The following Security Council press statement was issued today by Council President Vitaly Churkin (Russian Federation):

Deeming the present juncture in Somalia as crucial for the international community, the country’s people and the region’s stability, the Secretary-General told the Security Council today: “We finally face a moment of fresh opportunities. We must seize it.”

The Fifth Committee (Administrative and Budgetary) today took stock of the financing requirements for the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda and the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia, as it heard Secretariat officials shed light on progress in completing the Tribunals’ work and preparing their transfer to residual mechanisms.

The Security Council, meeting concurrently with but independently of the General Assembly, today elected Julia Sebutinde of Uganda as the fifth Judge of the International Court of Justice.