Press Release

On 12 April 2012, the Security Council Committee pursuant to resolutions 1267 (1999) and 1989 (2011) approved the addition of the entry specified below to 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.

The following statement was issued on 13 April by the Spokesperson for UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon:

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

Following is UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s message on the International Day of Human Space Flight, today, 12 April:

Following are UN Deputy Secretary-General Asha-Rose Migiro’s remarks, as delivered, on the eighteenth anniversary of the Rwanda genocide, in New York, 11 April:

Following is UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s message, as delivered by Susana Malcorra, Chef de Cabinet, to the interactive thematic debate on disaster risk reduction, 12 April, in New York:

Following is the text of UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s video message on the eighteenth anniversary of the genocide in Rwanda, delivered on 11 April:

The United Nations Office for Disarmament Affairs is announcing the launch of the redesigned website of the 1540 Committee, http://www.un.org/en/sc/1540. The work has been carried out in cooperation with the Department of Public Information.

Following is UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s message, as delivered by Jomo Kwame Sundaram, Assistant Secretary-General for Economic Development, to the High-Level Thematic Debate of the General Assembly on Excessive Price Volatility in Food and Related Financial and Commodity Markets, 11 April, in New York:

A two-day conference to be held in New York City later this month, “Envision 2012: Stories for a Sustainable Future”, will focus on developing a better global future with opportunity for all, building on three key issues: just and sustainable cities; clean water; and green energy.