Following is the text of UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s message to the Global Creative Leaders Summit, delivered by Amir Dossal, Executive Director, United Nations Office for Partnerships, in New York today, 23 September:

Following is UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s message congratulating Festus Mogae on receipt of the Africana Heritage Award, on 23 September:

Following are Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s remarks at the launch of the report of the Task Force on Innovative International Financing for Health Systems, in New York, today, 23 September:

On 23 September 2009, the Security Council Al-Qaida and Taliban Sanctions Committee approved the deletion (de-listing) of the entry specified below from its Consolidated List. The Committee approved this de-listing following its review of the name, as called for in paragraph 25 of Security Council resolution 1822 (2008).

On 23 September 2009, the Security Council Al-Qaida and Taliban Sanctions Committee approved the amendments specified with strikethrough and underline in the two entries below to its Consolidated List of individuals and entities subject to the assets freeze, travel ban and arms embargo set out in paragraph 1 of Security Council resolution 1822 (2008) adopted under Chapter VII of the Charter of the United Nations.

Following are UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s remarks at the meeting for “A Call to Action: Protecting Mothers and Children against AIDS” in New York, today, 23 September:

Following are UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s remarks at the High-level Event on REDD (UN Collaborative Programme on Reduced Emissions from Deforestation and Degradation in Developing Countries) in New York, today, 23 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 statement to the media on the high-level meeting of the Group of Friends on Myanmar, read by Ibrahim Gambari, Special Adviser to the Secretary-General, in New York today, 23 September:

Emphasizing the pivotal role of the world’s forests in preventing runaway environmental catastrophe, United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said this afternoon that immediate action on reducing deforestation was a critical part of the solution to climate change, as he opened his High-level Event on Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation.