Press Release

Following are UN Deputy Secretary-General Asha-Rose Migiro’s remarks to the General Assembly plenary meeting on human security, in New York, 4 June:

Following are UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s remarks to the Second Meeting of the Advisory Board of the United Nations Centre for Counter-Terrorism, in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, 3 June:

Negotiators concluded the last round of “Rio+20” preparatory talks in New York on Saturday, making progress that will pave the way for many outcomes and initiatives on major global sustainability issues later this month at the United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development, to be held in Rio de Janeiro from 20 to 22 June.

In May 2012, the United Nations Office for Disarmament Affairs, through its Regional Centre for Peace, Disarmament and Development in Latin America and the Caribbean (UNLIREC) provided a set of small arms destruction equipment to the Dominican Republic and trained national officers on the use of the equipment. These activities aim to strengthen the capacity of the Dominican Republic to combat the illicit trafficking in small arms and light weapons nationally, as well as in the Caribbean region.

On 1 June 2012, the Security Council Committee established pursuant to resolution 1988 (2011) enacted the amendments specified with strikethrough and underline in the entries below to its List (the 1988 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 1988 (2011) adopted under Chapter VII of the Charter of the United Nations.

The twenty-second Meeting of States parties to the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea will be held at Headquarters from 4 to 11 June.

Following are the opening remarks of UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon at the Istanbul II Conference on Somalia, in Istanbul, 1 June:

Following are the closing remarks of UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon at the Istanbul II Conference on Somalia, in Istanbul, 1 June:

Following are UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s remarks, as delivered, to the Partners Forum of the United Nations Alliance of Civilizations, in Istanbul, Turkey, 31 May:

For the position of Under-Secretary-General for Communications and Public Information, United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has selected Peter Launsky-Tieffenthal of Austria, who since 2007 has been the Spokesman and Head of the Department for Communication and Information of the Austrian Federal Ministry for European and International Affairs.