This is the text of a video message by UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today to a gathering of international stock exchange and financial leaders ‑‑ entitled “Sustainable Stock Exchanges” ‑‑ at United Nations Headquarters in New York:

The Sixth Committee today continued its consideration of the report of the International Law Commission by turning to the new topics of “obligation to extradite or prosecute”, “most-favoured-nations clause”, and “treaties over time”, while completing its debate on the last cluster.

Amid calls for a new collective security system in which no country felt the need to rely on nuclear weapons, General Assembly delegates today adopted a consensus resolution reaffirming their strong support for the International Atomic Energy Agency in encouraging the practical application of nuclear energy for peaceful uses.

In observance of the anniversary of the Kristallnacht pogrom on 9 November 1938, the United Nations Department of Public Information will screen the documentary film, “As Seen Through These Eyes”,which conveys images and messages from a number of eyewitnesses of the Holocaust.

The most immediate challenge facing the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East was a funding shortfall that risked a suspension of essential services, the Agency’s head said this afternoon, as the Fourth Committee launched its annual consideration of the Agency’s work.

Following are UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s remarks at the staff town hall meeting in New York today, 30 October:

Following is the text of a message from UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon to the dinner on the eve of the Summit of Religious and Secular Leaders on Climate Change in London (2 November), delivered on his behalf by Janos Pasztor, Director of the Secretary-General’s Climate Change Support:

Following is the text of UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s speech, as prepared for delivery, to a Summit of Religious and Secular Leaders on Climate Change, in London today:

Following is the text of UN Deputy Secretary-General Asha-Rose Migiro’s address to the opening of the Regional Coordination Mechanism Meeting of the Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia today, in Beirut, Lebanon: