Press Release

Following are UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s remarks, delivered by Deputy Secretary-General Jan Eliasson, with his own personal comments, to the Inter-Parliamentary Union Annual Parliamentary Hearing, in New York, 6 December:

Following is UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s message for Human Rights Day, to be observed on 10 December:

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

The Bureau of the Committee on the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People issued the following statement today, 6 December:

Following is UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s message for International Anti-Corruption Day, observed on 9 December:

The Art for Peace Calendar for 2013 comprises 12 winning entries in the Art for Peace Contest 2012, sponsored by the United Nations Office for Disarmament Affairs and the Harmony for Peace Foundation with the goal of encouraging children and teens across the globe to use their creative talents to “imagine a world free of nuclear weapons”.

Following are UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s keynote remarks, as prepared for delivery, to the informal ministerial round table entitled “Ambition, Support and Delivery, Now and in the Future”, in Doha, on 5 December:

On 5 December 2012, the Security Council Committee pursuant to resolutions 1267 (1999) and 1989 (2011) approved the addition of the entry specified below to its Al-Qaida Sanctions List of individuals and entities subject to the assets freeze, travel ban and arms embargo set out in paragraph 1 of Security Council resolution 1989 (2011) adopted under Chapter VII of the Charter of the United Nations:

Following is the text of UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s video message to the GAVI Alliance Partners’ Forum, held in Dar es Salaam, 5 December:

Following are UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s remarks to the Chief Executives Board meeting on “The UN system Delivering as One on Climate Change: Sustainable Solutions for Climate Action”, in Doha on 4 December: