Press Release

Following are UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s remarks to the General Assembly’s informal interactive dialogue on “The Responsibility to Protect: Timely and Decisive Response”, in New York on 5 September:

Following is UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s message for the International Day of Democracy, observed on 15 September:

Following are UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s remarks on Syria to the General Assembly, in New York, 4 September:

Following is UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s message to the General Assembly of the International Auschwitz Committee, held in Oswieçim, Poland, 5-8 September:

Following is UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s message for International Literacy Day, observed on 8 September:

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

The Commission on the Limits of the Continental Shelf held its thirtieth session at United Nations Headquarters from 30 July to 24 August 2012. The period from 13 August to 24 August 2012 was devoted to the technical examination of submissions at the Geographic Information Systems facilities of the Division.

Following are UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s remarks at the School of International Relations in Tehran on 30 August:

More than a decade after Member States agreed on a comprehensive programme of action aimed at eradicating the illicit trade in small arms and light weapons, the United Nations this week launched international standards to provide further impetus to that work. The International Small Arms Control Standards (ISACS) were launched during a global meeting in New York that is examining how well States are implementing the action programme they agreed in 2001.

Following are UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s remarks to the high-level segment of the sixteenth Non-Aligned Movement Summit in Tehran, 30 August: