Press Release

The following statement was issued on 11 June by the Spokesperson for UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon:

Following is UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s message, as delivered byMaher Nasser, Acting Head, Department of Public Information, to the International Media Seminar on Peace in the Middle East, in Geneva, 12 June:

The following statement was issued on 11 June by the Spokesperson for UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on the announcement by the Seoul Peace Prize Selection Committee on its selection of the Secretary-General as the 2012 winner:

Following is UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s message on the World Day to Combat Desertification, which is observed 17 June:

Following are Deputy Secretary-General Asha-Rose Migiro’s remarks at the New York launch of the “Africa Human Development Report 2012: Towards a Food Secure Future”, 11 June, in New York:

The following Security Council press statement was issued on 8 June by Council President Li Baodong (China):

Following are UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s remarks, as delivered by Navid Hanif, Director, Office of Economic and Social Council Support and Coordination, Department of Economic and Social Affairs, at the opening of the retreat on the 2012 Quadrennial Comprehensive Policy Review of United Nations Operational Activities for Development, in Tarrytown, New York, 8 June:

The dedicated United Nations website on the Arms Trade Treaty (ATT) negotiations went live on 7 June: www.un.org/disarmament/ATT/.

On 11 June 2012, the Security Council Committee established pursuant to resolution 1988 (2011) deleted the entries specified below from the Committee’s List (the 1988 List). The assets freeze, travel ban and arms embargo set out in paragraph 1 of Security Council resolution1988 (2011), therefore, no longer apply to the following individuals:

Following are UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s remarks to the General Assembly meeting on HIV/AIDS, in New York, 11 June: