Press Release

Following are UN Deputy Secretary-General Jan Eliasson’s closing remarks, as prepared for delivery, to the Millennium Development Goals Advocates event, in New York today:

Following is the text of UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s video message to the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Core Group Ministerial Event, in New York today:

The United Nations Office for Disarmament Affairs, through its Regional Centre for Peace and Disarmament in Africa, jointly with the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime, will donate a small arms and light weapons marking machine to both Burkina Faso and Niger to fight small arms proliferation.

Following are UN Deputy Secretary-General Jan Eliasson’s remarks, as prepared for delivery, at the high-level debate “Health Care and Violence: the Need for Effective Prevention”, in New York today:

Following are UN Deputy Secretary-General Jan Eliasson’s opening remarks, as prepared for delivery, for the side event “Moving Away from the Death Penalty”, in New York today:

Following are UN Deputy Secretary-General Jan Eliasson’s remarks, as prepared for delivery, for the high-level side event, “Fast Track: Ending Aids by 2030”, in New York today:

Following is UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s message to the High-Level event on Reducing Risks from Water-Related Disasters, in New York today:

Following are UN Secretary-General Ban Ki‑moon’s remarks to the high-level event on Libya, in New York today:

Following are UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s remarks to the high-level meeting on Hope for South Sudan, in New York today:

Saying “it is all too easy for warlords, terrorists, criminal syndicates and all sorts of human right abusers to get sophisticated weapons”, United Nations Messenger of Peace Michael Douglas today delivered a short video message expressing his support for the Arms Trade Treaty.