United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon and African Union Chairperson Jean Ping today announced the appointment of Mohamed Yonis of Somalia as Deputy Joint Special Representative for Operations and Management in the African Union-United Nations Hybrid Operation in Darfur (UNAMID).

A United Nations workshop on implementing United Nations Security Council resolution 1540 (2004) will be held from 8 to 10 September 2009 in San José, Costa Rica.

Representatives of United Nations agencies, programmes and offices shed light today on their respective strategies and action plans to implement the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, as the Conference of States Parties to the treaty concluded its second session.

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

The world continues on a path of remarkable technological change in the communications domain. Witness the nature of public and online debate over elections held in countries as far apart as the United States, Republic of Moldova and Iran; while the inroads made by new media and social networking options have given millions immediate access to the latest-breaking developments from an array of communications sources.

The United Nations Reham Al-Farra Memorial Journalists’ Fellowship Programme begins its twenty-ninth session today at Headquarters, under the direction of the Outreach Division of the Department of Public Information. The six-week fellowship ends on 16 October 2009.

The following statement was issued by the Spokesperson for UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on Sunday, 6 September:

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

Following is UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s message on the International Day of Democracy, observed 15 September:

Following is UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s message for the International Day of Peace, to be observed on 21 September: