Press Release

Following is UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s message for World Autism Awareness Day, to be commemorated on 2 April:

Following is UN Deputy Secretary-General Jan Eliasson’s message for the International Day of Nowruz, observed today:

Following is UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s remarks, as delivered, at the opening session of the Nuclear Security Summit in The Hague today:

Following are UN Deputy Secretary-General Jan Eliasson’s remarks to the special meeting of the General Assembly in commemoration of the International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination, in New York today:

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

Following is UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s message for the International Day of Remembrance of the Victims of Slavery and the Transatlantic Slave Trade, observed on 25 March:

Following is UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s message, as delivered by Babacar Gaye, Special Representative of the Secretary-General and Head of the United Nations Integrated Peacebuilding Office in the Central African Republic (BINUCA), to the meeting of the International Contact Group on the Central African Republic, in Brazzaville, 21 March:

The following Security Council press statement was issued today by Council President Sylvie Lucas (Luxembourg):

The Committee on the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People will convene the United Nations International Meeting on the Question of Palestine in Quito, Ecuador, on 25 and 26 March, at Swissôtel Quito. The theme of the Meeting is “Engaging for peace — the International Year of Solidarity with the Palestinian People”.