Mayors and representatives from major world cities will meet to consider how better infrastructure planning could help achieve sustainable urban development, on 13 May at the United Nations Headquarters in New York.

On 12 May 2009, the Security Council Committee established pursuant to resolution 1521 (2003) concerning Liberia approved the inclusion of additional information concerning two individuals: Victoria Refell (travel ban list only) and Edwin Snowe, Jr. (travel ban and assets freeze lists).

The first annual forum jointly produced by the United Nations Department of Public Information and the Independent Filmmaker Project ‑‑ entitled “Envision: Addressing Global Issues through Documentaries” ‑‑ will take place 14-15 May at the Directors Guild Theatre in New York City.

Following are UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s remarks to the opening of the “Welcome to Gulu” exhibition, in New York, on 12 May:

In the midst of a global recession and ongoing food price crisis, “things can deteriorate frighteningly fast”, United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon warned today, as he urged the Commission on Sustainable Development to look beyond short-term measures and agree on a set of policy decisions that would revitalize agriculture, support small farmers and promote food security for all.

Following is the text of UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s message to the Caribbean Regional Seminar on Decolonization and the observance of the Week of Solidarity with the Peoples of Non-Self-Governing Territories, delivered by Michael M. Streitz, Senior Political Affairs Officer, Decolonization Unit, Department of Political Affairs, in Frigate Bay, Saint Kitts and Nevis, on 12 May:

Following are UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s remarks to the seventeenth session of the Commission on Sustainable Development, today, 13 May, in New York:

The international community had a “unique opportunity” to help the Transitional Federal Government of Somalia establish peace and security, speakers emphasized today as the Security Council heard a series of briefings on the situation in that country by senior United Nations officials.