Press Release

Representatives from 90 United Nations Member States as well as more than 50 international and civil society organizations and private sector entities will gather in Seoul, Republic of Korea, from 23 to 27 October for a series of high‑profile meetings aimed at improving the global management and coordination of geospatial information and the application of geospatial technology in solving global socio‑economic challenges.

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

The United Nations Office for Disarmament Affairs and the Permanent Mission of Austria to the United Nations held today a special event entitled “Enhancing Small Arms Control in Central Africa — The Kinshasa Convention” at the Permanent Mission of Austria. The event — from 1 p.m. to 2:45 p.m. at the Permanent Mission of Austria to the United Nations — was to promote this new subregional instrument to control and fight the illicit proliferation of small arms and light weapons in Central Africa.

At its thirty-second meeting, on 30 September 2011, the Security Council Working Group on Children and Armed Conflict agreed, in connection with the consideration of the first report of the Secretary-General on children and armed conflict in Iraq (S/2011/366), covering the period from January 2008 to December 2010, to address the following message to the armed groups mentioned in the report of the Secretary-General through public statements by the Chair of the Working Group:

Following are UN Secretary-General’s remarks to the Member States on the Work of the Global Sustainability Panel, in New York today, 20 October:

Following are the remarks of UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon to the Mainichi Shimbun Exhibition on the Great East Japan Earthquake, in New York, 20 October:

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

Following is UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s remarks at the opening of “The African Continuum: Celebrating Diversity, Recognizing Contributions of People of African Descent”, in New York, 19 October:

This is the text of remarks by UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon in the Security Council today, at the outset of the Council’s meeting on “Peace and Security in Africa: Piracy in the Gulf of Guinea”:

As the United Nations and the world are gearing up for Rio+20 — a major global conference that aims to accelerate efforts to promote sustainable development — the United Nations opened a new facility today in Incheon, Republic of Korea, that aims to assist developing countries. The new centre was formally launched at a ceremony in Seoul.