Following are UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s remarks at a panel discussion on the book Half the Sky: Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide, in New York Today, 15 September:

Following is UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon’s message for the International Day for the Preservation of the Ozone Layer, to be observed on 16 September:

Pursuant to the decision taken at its twenty-second session and on the basis of General Assembly resolution 63/111, the Commission on the Limits of the Continental Shelf held its resumed twenty-third and twenty-fourth sessions at United Nations Headquarters from 3 to 7 August and from 10 August to 11 September, respectively.

Ali Abdussalam Treki was elected President of the sixty-fourth session of the United Nations General Assembly on 10 June 2009.

José Luis Cancela, Permanent Representative of Uruguay to the United Nations, was elected Chair of the First Committee (Disarmament and International Security) on 10 June.

Park In-kook, Permanent Representative of the Republic of Korea to the United Nations, was elected Chair of its Second Committee (Economic and Financial) on 10 June.

Normans Penke, Permanent Representative of Latvia to the United Nations, was elected Chair of the Third Committee (Social, Humanitarian and Cultural) on 10 June.

Nassir Abdulaziz Al-Nasser, Permanent Representative of Qatar to the United Nations, was elected Chair of the Fourth Committee (Special Political and Decolonization) on 10 June.

Peter Maurer, Permanent Representative of Switzerland to the United Nations, was elected Chair of the Fifth Committee (Administrative and Budgetary) on 10 June.

Mourad Benmehidi, Permanent Representative of Algeria to the United Nations, was elected Chair of the Sixth Committee (Legal) on 10 June.