Press Release

Following are UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s remarks at the opening of the 2013 session of the Committee on the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People in New York on 5 February:

Following are UN Deputy Secretary-General Jan Eliasson’s remarks at the United Nations Association of the United States of America (UNA-USA) Members Day at the United Nations, in New York on 4 February:

Giving the poorest and most vulnerable the voice and tools needed to lift themselves out of poverty is key to bolstering efforts towards and beyond the achievement of global development goals, according to United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s latest report on promoting people’s empowerment, the priority theme of the Commission on Social Development’s fifty-first session when it meets from 6 to 15 February at United Nations Headquarters.

The following Security Council press statement was issued today by Council President Kim Sook (Republic of Korea):

Following is UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s message, delivered by Peter Launsky-Tieffenthal, Under-Secretary-General for Communications and Public Information, to the thirty-fifth Lions Day with the United Nations, in New York on 1 February:

Following is UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s message for Interfaith Harmony Week, in New York on 1 February:

Following are UN Deputy Secretary-General Jan Eliasson’s remarks to the Security Council on the effectiveness of the United Nations system’s support for the promotion of the rule of law in conflict and post-conflict situations, in New York on 30 January:

Following are UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s closing remarks to the Pledging Conference on Syria, in Kuwait City on 30 January: