Press Release

Following are UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s opening remarks at the fifth ASEAN-UN Summit in Bandar Seri Begawan on 10 October:

Following is UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s message, delivered by Babatunde Osotimehin, Executive Director of the United Nations Population Fund, to the Friends of UNFPA Gala for the Health and Dignity of Women and Girls, in New York on 10 October:

On 8 October 2013, the Security Council Committee pursuant to resolutions 1267 (1999) and 1989 (2011) approved the deletion (delisting) of the entry specified below from the Al-Qaida Sanctions List.

Following is UN Deputy Secretary-General Jan Eliasson’s lecture, as prepared for delivery, at the Council on Foreign Relations, in New York on 9 October:

Following are UN Deputy Secretary-General Jan Eliasson’s remarks to the Sixth Committee (Legal) on the agenda item "The Rule of Law at the National and International Levels", in New York on 9 October:

Following is UN Secretary-General Ban-Ki-moon’s message for the International Day for Disaster Reduction, observed on 13 October:

The 2013 International Media Seminar on Peace in the Middle East concluded today at the Istanbul Hilton Exhibition and Convention Centre in Istanbul, Turkey. This two-day event focused on the evolving media-related dynamics in the Middle East and explored how the media relate to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

Following is UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s message, delivered by Tayé-Brook Zerihoun, Assistant Secretary-General for Political Affairs, to the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) Meeting on the Sahel, held in Washington, D.C., on 9 October:

The 2013 International Media Seminar on Peace in the Middle East opened today at the Istanbul Hilton Exhibition and Convention Centre in Istanbul, Turkey. This two-day event will focus on the evolving media-related dynamics in the Middle East and will explore how the media relate to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

Following are UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s opening remarks, as prepared for delivery, at the Budapest Water Summit on 8 October: