Press Release

United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon appointed Jānis Kārkliņš of Latvia to be the Chair of the Multi-stakeholder Advisory Group of the Internet Governance Forum.

Following is UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s message for Africa Day, to be observed 25 May:

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

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

Following are UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s remarks at Fudan University, in Shanghai today:

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

Following are UN Deputy Secretary-General Jan Eliasson’s remarks to the Security Council, as delivered on behalf of the Secretary-General, in New York today:

On 22 May 2014, the Security Council’s Al-Qaida Sanctions Committee approved the addition of Boko Haram to its list of individuals and entities subject to the targeted financial sanctions and the arms embargo set out in paragraph 1 of Security Council resolution 2083 (2012), adopted under Chapter VII of the Charter of the United Nations.

Following are UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s remarks, as prepared for delivery, at the Lunch on Maternal and Child Health, hosted by the Chinese People’s Association for Friendship with Foreign Countries, the National Health and Family Planning Commission, in Shanghai today:

Following is UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s message, as delivered by Said Djinnit, Special Representative of the Secretary-General for West Africa, to the High-level West Africa Coast Initiative Donor Conference, in New York today: