Following are the remarks by Deputy Secretary-General Asha-Rose Migiro delivered to the Second Metropolis Women International Network Forum “Dynamic Cities Need Women: Visions and Challenges for a Women-Friendly City”, in Seoul today:

The world premiere of the Walt Disney animated film, "Tinker Bell and the Lost Treasure", will take place on Sunday, 25 October, at 3 p.m., in the Trusteeship Council Chamber. Prior to the screening, Kiyo Akasaka, Under-Secretary-General for Communications and Public Information, will name Tinker Bell the “Honorary Ambassador of Green” to help promote environmental awareness among children.

The following Security Council press statement on the issue of missing Kuwaiti and third country nationals, and the repatriation of Kuwaiti property, was read out today by Council President Le Luong Minh (Viet Nam):

Following is the text of UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s remarks at the Headquarters special event: “Giving Voice to Victims and Survivors of Human Trafficking”, today, 22 October:

Five days after celebrating the International Day for the Eradication of Poverty, the international community still had a long way to go to erase the vast socio-economic inequities that existed from Argentina to Zimbabwe, several speakers told the Second Committee (Economic and Financial) today, as it began its consideration of the eradication of poverty and other development issues.

As the Fourth Committee (Special Political and Decolonization) concluded its general debate on the peaceful uses of outer space this afternoon, delegates greeted the increase in the number of countries focusing on outer space issues, affirming space technologies as of “inestimable value” to the Earth’s population, but warned at the same time of the danger of its militarization.

Continuing its wide-ranging discussion on the promotion and protection of human rights, the Third Committee (Social, Humanitarian and Cultural) approved six draft resolutions on a range of social-economic issues, including one that would have the General Assembly proclaim 2012 as the International Year of Cooperatives.

Following is the text of UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s message delivered today to the fifty-seventh Congress of Femmes Chefs d’Entreprises Mondiales, taking place in Yaoundé, Cameroon, 23-30 October:

United Nations peacekeeping was an increasingly complex and dangerous endeavour that rested on the shared partnership of Member States, the Security Council and the Secretariat, succeeding quietly, every day, in mitigating harm to thousands of civilians around the globe, Under-Secretary-General Alain Le Roy told the Fourth Committee today, as it began its comprehensive review of the whole question of peacekeeping in all its aspects.