Press Release

Following is UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s message to the High-Level Policy Forum on Migration of the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development, to be held in Paris 1-2 December:

Following is UN Secretary‑General Ban Ki‑moon’s message, as delivered by Angela Kane, United Nations High Representative for Disarmament Affairs, to the nineteenth session of the Conference of States Parties to the Chemical Weapons Convention, at The Hague, 1 December:

Following is UN Secretary‑General Ban Ki‑moon’s message on International Volunteer Day, observed on 5 December:

Following is the text of UN Secretary‑General Ban Ki‑moon’s video message to the UN Cares award winners, in New York today:

Following is UN Secretary‑General Ban Ki‑moon’s message on the International Day for the Abolition of Slavery, observed on 2 December:

On 26 November, at its second formal meeting, the Security Council Committee established pursuant to resolution 2140 (2014) continued its dialogue with the representatives to the United Nations of Yemen and the member countries of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) — namely, Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates.

Following is UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s message for the International Day of Persons with Disabilities, to be observed on 3 December:

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

The following Security Council press statement was issued today by Council President Gary Quinlan (Australia):

Following is the text of UN Deputy Secretary-General Jan Eliasson’s video message to the 2014 Volvo Group Sustainability Forum, held in Stockholm today: