Press Release

Following is UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s message for the International Day for Mine Awareness and Assistance in Mine Action, to be observed on 4 April:

Following is UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s message to the Seoul Nuclear Security Symposium, as delivered by Angela Kane, High Representative for Disarmament Affairs, on 23 March:

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

Following is UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s message for World Health Day, to be observed on 7 April:

Following is UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s message to the Fifth Regional Economic Cooperation Conference on Afghanistan, delivered by Ján Kubiš, Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Afghanistan and Head of the United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA), in Dushanbe, Tajikistan, on 26 March:

Following are UN Deputy Secretary-General Asha-Rose Migiro’s remarks to the General Assembly on the International Day of Remembrance of the Victims of Slavery and the Transatlantic Slave Trade, 26 March, in New York:

Further to the announcement of 2 and 8 March 2012 on senior appointments, the Secretary-General has selected Carlos Lopes of Guinea-Bissau as Executive Secretary of the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (ECA).

Following is UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s message for the International Day of Remembrance of the Victims of Slavery and the Transatlantic Slave Trade, to be observed on 25 March:

Following is UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s message on the International Day of Solidarity with Detained and Missing Staff Members, observed on 25 March:

Following is UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s Fullerton lecture, as prepared for delivery at the International Institute for Strategic Studies in Singapore on 23 March 2012: