Following are UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s remarks to the Security Council on Haiti and on cooperation between the United Nations and regional organizations, in New York today, 13 January:

Following a two-day retreat of officials from 11 regional organizations with the Secretary-General and a Security Council meeting that heard from them this morning, the Council expressed its intention to promote closer and more operational cooperation between the United Nations and such organizations in the fields of conflict early warning, prevention, peacemaking, peacekeeping and peacebuilding and to ensure the coherence, synergy and collective effectiveness of their efforts.

Following is UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s briefing to the General Assembly on the emergency in Haiti, in New York today, 13 January:

The following Security Council statement was read out today by Council President Zhang Yesui (China):

As news of the devastating earthquake dramatically underlines the urgency of broad support for humanitarian relief and assistance, the United Nations is launching a new website designed to match the needs of entities of the Organization with the resources and capacities of the private sector.

The crisis in Somalia was no longer local or even regional, but a global one that could no longer be ignored, Ahmedou Ould-Abdallah, the Secretary-General’s top representative in that country, said today in a briefing to the Security Council.

While the fragility of Nepal’s peace process remains real, in the past month the parties had demonstrated a “renewed urgency” on the core issues and those breakthroughs in the political impasse must be followed by swift progress in the peace process to avoid instability and allow the United Nations mission there to complete its tasks, the Security Council was told this morning.

A regional workshop to be held in Nairobi, Kenya, from 2 to 4 February will aim to promote the building of national- and regional-level capacity to advance full implementation of Security Council resolution 1540 (2004).

Following are UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s remarks to the Global Colloquium of University Presidents on New Technologies for Meeting Global Challenges, at Yale University yesterday, 14 January:

Following is UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s 16 January statement in New York, confirming the deaths of Hédi Annabi, Special Representative of the Secretary-General in Haiti, Luiz Carlos da Costa, Principal Deputy Special Representative, and Doug Coates, Acting United Nations Police Commissioner in Haiti: