Following are Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s opening remarks at the Food Security Summit in Rome, today, 16 November:

Following are the remarks of Deputy Secretary-General Asha-Rose Migiro at the induction of United Nations Resident Coordinators/United Nations Development Programme Resident Representatives, in New York today, 16 November:

The following Security Council press statement on Somalia was read out today by Council President Thomas Mayr-Harting ( Austria):

Following is UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s message to the Pre-COP Meeting, held in Copenhagen, 16 to 17 November, as delivered today, 16 November, by Yvo de Boer, Executive Secretary, United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change:

Expressing its strong endorsement of continuing assistance by the United Nations Assistance Mission for Iraq (UNAMI) in preparations for upcoming elections, the Security Council this morning welcomed the parliamentary agreement which would allow the polls to take place in January 2010.

Following is UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s remarks to World Food Programme staff in Rome today, 16 November:

Mirroring the international community’s growing awareness of the trauma that people and their Governments suffered when their cultural properties were stolen or trafficked, the General Assembly today considered a draft resolution that asked Member States to actively cooperate in returning displaced cultural artefacts to their rightful home countries.

While near-consensus had been reached on many issues that had stymied reform of the Security Council for years, questions about exactly how to expand the 15‑member body in a way that guaranteed its effectiveness remained a stubborn snag in building on progress, General Assembly delegates said today as they wrapped up their two-day joint debate on those and other security matters.

The Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) is hosting an exhibition of more than 40 extraordinary photographs by South African women living with HIV and Mozambican children orphaned by AIDS.

The following press statement on the Lord’s Resistance Army was issued today by Council President Thomas Mayr-Harting (Austria):