Press Release

Following are UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s remarks at the opening of the Ministerial Conference on the Peaceful Settlement of Disputes, as prepared for delivery, in The Hague, 28 August:

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 fourth International Day against Nuclear Tests, to be observed on 29 August:

The 2013 United Nations Programme of Fellowships on Disarmament starts today in Geneva with the participation of young diplomats from 25 Member States, and will last nine weeks.

On 26 August 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. The assets freeze, travel ban and arms embargo set out in paragraph 1 of Security Council resolution 2083 (2012) therefore no longer apply to the following entry:

Following is the text of UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s video message to the twenty-seventh annual conference of the International Union for the Scientific Study of Population, in Busan, Republic of Korea, on 26 August:

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 opening ceremony of the 2013 World Rowing Championships in Chungju, Republic of Korea, on 24 August:

Following is the text of UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s video message to the United Nations World Tourism Organization General Assembly at Victoria Falls (Zambia/Zimbabwe) on 24 August:

Following are UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s remarks at a meeting with the diplomatic corps on “The Millennium Development Goals and Africa: Outreach on Accelerating Action”, in Seoul, on 23 August: