Press Release

The following statement was issued on 12 August by the Spokesperson for UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon:

Following is UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s closing statement as prepared for delivery to the First World Congress of Global Partnership for Young Women and Second Global Partnership Forum, in Seoul today, 13 August:

The following Security Council press statement was issued today by Council President Gérard Araud (France):

United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon will launch the Oceans Compact — an initiative to strengthen United Nations system-wide coherence in delivering on its oceans-related mandates — on Sunday, 12 August, in Yeosu, Republic of Korea.

Following is UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s message, delivered by Angela Kane, High Representative for Disarmament Affairs, to the Global Forum on Disarmament and Non-proliferation Education in Nagasaki today, 10 August:

The following Security Council press statement was issued today by Council President Gérard Araud (France):

Following is UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s message, delivered by Angela Kane, High Representative for Disarmament Affairs, to the Peace Memorial Ceremony in Nagasaki, today, 9 August:

Following are UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s remarks at the commemoration of the International Day of the World’s Indigenous Peoples in New York today, 9 August:

Following is UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s message, delivered by Consuelo Vidal, Resident Coordinator in Iran, to the Consultative Meeting on Syria, in Tehran today, 9 August:

United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon will launch a new independent global network of research centres, universities and technical institutions to help find solutions to some of the world’s most pressing environmental, social and economic problems.