Press Release

On 22 April 2013, the Security Council Committee established pursuant to resolution 1988 (2011) enacted the amendments specified with strikethrough and underline in the entries below to its List (the 1988 List) of individuals and entities subject to the assets freeze, travel ban and arms embargo set out in paragraph 1 of Security Council resolution 2082 (2012) adopted under Chapter VII of the Charter of the United Nations:

Following are UN Deputy Secretary-General Jan Eliasson’s remarks, as prepared for delivery, at a high-level panel on investing in sanitation, in Washington, D.C., 19 April:

Following are UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s remarks for the Interactive Dialogue on Harmony with Nature to Commemorate International Mother Earth Day, in New York, 22 April:

Following is UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s video message to the World Chambers Congress, in Doha, 22-25 April:

The following statement was issued on 21 April by the Spokesperson for UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon:

Following are UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s remarks to the Commission on Population and Development, in New York, 22 April:

ISTANBUL, 20 April — The 197 country members of the United Nations Forum on Forests concluded their two-week session in Istanbul, Turkey, with agreement on a series of measures aimed at improving sustainable management of forests and ensuring that forest issues will continue to have priority in the process to define the United Nations development agenda after 2015.

Following is UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s video message for Global Action Week on Education, 21-27 April:

Following are UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s remarks at the event on “Preventing Proliferation of Weapons of Mass Destruction to Non-State Actors: Implementation of Resolution 1540 (2004) in the Arab World”, in New York, 22 April:

Following are UN Deputy Secretary-General Jan Eliasson’s remarks at a meeting of the Economic and Social Council with the Bretton Woods institutions, the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development and the World Trade Organization, in New York, 22 April: