Press Release

During the course of the general debate at United Nations Headquarters over the past week, 59 Member States took 113 treaty actions at the annual Treaty Event.

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

Following is UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s message for the International Day of Non-Violence, 2 October:

The Security Council Committee pursuant to resolutions 1267 (1999) and 1989 (2011) concerning Al-Qaida and associated individuals and entities removed the name of the individual below from the Al-Qaida Sanctions List after concluding its consideration of a delisting request submitted through the Office of the Ombudsperson established pursuant to Security Council resolution 1904 (2009), and after considering the Comprehensive Report of the Ombudsperson on this delisting request.

Following is UN Deputy Secretary-General Jan Eliasson’s remarks, as prepared for delivery, at the briefing on the work of African Regional Economic Communities, in New York, 1 October:

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

On 30 September 2013, the United Nations-African Union Joint Task Force on Peace and Security held its seventh consultative meeting at United Nations Headquarters in New York, on the margins of the sixty-eighth session of the United Nations General Assembly. The United Nations Secretariat and African Union Commission were represented by senior officials from the two organizations.

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

Following are UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon’s remarks at the Meeting of Ministers of Landlocked Developing Countries, in New York on 30 September:

Following are UN Deputy Secretary-General Jan Eliasson’s opening remarks, as prepared for delivery, at the High-level Meeting on Central Asia, in New York, 28 September: