Press Release

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

The following Security Council press statement was issued today by Council President Mohammad Masood Khan (Pakistan):

NEW YORK, 29 January (Office for Disarmament Affairs) — The twenty-fourth United Nations Conference on Disarmament Issues will take place in Shizuoka City, Japan, from 30 January to 1 February 2013. This annual event is organized by the Office for Disarmament Affairs, through its Regional Centre for Peace and Disarmament in Asia and the Pacific, in cooperation with the Government of Japan, and this year’s host city of Shizuoka.

Following is the text of UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s video message to the opening ceremony for the 2013 Pyeongchang Special Olympics World Winter Games, in Pyeongchang on 29 January:

Following is the text of UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s video message to the Rockefeller Foundation Global Health Summit in Beijing on 26 January:

Following is UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s address to the African Union in Addis Ababa, 27 January:

Following are UN Deputy Secretary-General Jan Eliasson’s remarks at the United Nations Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean-European Union Summit in Santiago on 26 January:

Following is UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s message, delivered by Yury Fedotov, Executive Director of the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime, to the Asia-Pacific Parliamentary Forum held in Vladivostok, 27-31 January:

The following statement was issued Sunday, 27 January, by the Spokesperson for UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon:

The following Security Council press statement was issued today by Council President Masood Khan (Pakistan):