Press Release

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

Following is UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s message, as delivered by Michael Møller, Acting Director-General of the United Nations Office at Geneva, to the Second Session of the Open-ended Intergovernmental Preparatory Committee of the Third United Nations World Conference on Disaster Risk Reduction, in Geneva, 17 November:

Following are UN Deputy Secretary-General Jan Eliasson’s remarks, as prepared for delivery, to the Secretary-General’s High-level Advisory Group on Sustainable Transport, in New York today:

United Nations Secretary‑General Ban Ki‑moon, accompanied by Madam Ban Soon‑taek, arrived in Nay Pyi Taw, the capital of Myanmar, from New York, via Incheon, late in the evening of 11 November, to attend the twenty-fifth annual Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) Summit.

A regional legal assistance workshop on the Arms Trade Treaty will take place in Siem Reap, Cambodia, 18–19 November 2014.

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

Sunday, 16 November, marked the twentieth anniversary of the entry into force of the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea.

On 14 November 2014, the Security Council Committee established pursuant to resolution 2127 (2013) concerning the Central African Republic drew attention to the recommendation contained in paragraph 223 (n) of the final report of the Panel of Experts on the Central African Republic dated 29 October 2014 (document S/2014/762), which is available on the Committee’s website.

Following is UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s message on World Toilet Day, to be observed on 19 November:

Following is Deputy Secretary-General Jan Eliasson’s video message to the “Beyond 2015” Civil Society Organization Conference, in Copenhagen today: