Press Release

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.

On 18 May 2012, the Security Council Committee pursuant to resolutions 1267 (1999) and 1989 (2011) enacted the amendments specified with strikethrough and underline in the entries below on its Al-Qaida 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 1989 (2011) adopted under Chapter VII of the Charter of the United Nations.

Following are UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s closing remarks to the high-level thematic debate on the “State of the World Economy and Finance and Its Impact on Development”, 18 May, in New York:

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

Following are UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s remarks to the Global Classrooms Model UN Meeting, “Youth of the World: Make Some Noise!”, in New York, 17 May:

Following is the text of UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s video message for the Headquarters concert on Victims of Slavery and the Transatlantic Slave Trade, in New York, 15 May:

Following are UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s remarks to the high-level debate on the “State of the World Economy and Finance and Its Impact on Development”, in New York, 17 May:

Following are Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s remarks, as prepared for delivery, at an event hosted by the Consulate General of the Republic of Korea in New York 16 March: