Press Release

The Independent Audit Advisory Committee of the United Nations (IAAC) held its eighteenth session from 14 to 16 May. The session, which was held at the United Nations Headquarters in New York, was presided over by the Chairman, John F.S. Muwanga. All the other members of the Committee, namely Adrian P. Strachan (Vice Chairman), Vadim V. Dubinkin, J. Christopher Mihm, and Vinod Rai, were in attendance.

Following is UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s message to the World Health Assembly, delivered by Kassym-Jomart Tokayev, Director-General of the United Nations Office at Geneva, 21 May:

Following is the text of UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s video message to the World Tunnel Congress, in Bangkok, 21 May:

Following are UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s remarks to the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) Summit meeting on Afghanistan, in Chicago, United States, 21 May:

The following Security Council press statement was issued today by Council President Agshin Mehdiyev (Azerbaijan):

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

The following statement was issued on 17 May by the Spokesperson for Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon:

NEW YORK, 18 May (Office for Disarmament Affairs) — In May, the United Nations Office for Disarmament Affairs, through its Regional Centre for Peace, Disarmament and Development in Latin America and the Caribbean, provided a set of small arms destruction equipment to the Bahamas and trained national officers on the use of the equipment.

On 18 May 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.

On 21 and 22 May, the United Nations Office for Disarmament Affairs, through its Regional Centre for Peace and Disarmament in Africa, is holding the African Regional Consultations on the Arms Trade Treaty at the headquarters of the African Union in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. The meeting is organized jointly with the International Action Network on Small Arms, in cooperation with the African Union Commission, and is made possible with the financial support of the Government of Australia.