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 sickle-cell anaemia, issued today, 19 June:

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

A regional workshop on implementation of Security Council resolution 1540 (2004) will be held on 23-25 June in Colombo, Sri Lanka. The workshop is jointly organized by Sri Lanka and the United States, in cooperation with the United Nations Office for Disarmament Affairs.

Following is UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s message on the International Day against Drug Abuse and Illicit Trafficking, observed 26 June:

The following press statement on Somalia was read out today by Council President Baki İlkin (Turkey):

The following Security Council press statement on the United Nations Regional Centre for Preventive Diplomacy for Central Asia was read out today by Council President Baki İlkin (Turkey):

On 18 June 2009, the Security Council Al-Qaida and Taliban Sanctions Committee approved the addition of the entry specified 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.

The Special Committee on Decolonization approved a two-part draft resolution today by which the General Assembly would reaffirm that there was no alternative to the principle of self-determination, which was a fundamental human right.

Following are UN Deputy Secretary-General Asha-Rose Migiro’s remarks at the Twenty-Ninth Conference of European Ministers of Justice, “Breaking the Silence -- United against Domestic Violence”, in Tromsø, Norway, on 18 June: