Press Release

Following are UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s remarks, partly delivered in French, to the Security Council on the situation in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, in New York on 18 May:

Following is UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s message for the International Day for Biodiversity, observed 22 May:

Following is UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s message for the World Day for Cultural Diversity for Dialogue and Development, observed 21 May:

At its thirtieth meeting on 2 May 2011, the Security Council Working Group on Children and Armed Conflict agreed, in connection with the examination of the second report of the Secretary-General on children and armed conflict in Afghanistan (document S/2011/55), to address the following message, through public statements issued by the Chairman of the Working Group:

The following Security Council press statement was issued today by Council President Gérard Araud (France):

On 12 May 2011, the Security Council Al-Qaida and Taliban Sanctions Committee approved the changes specified with strike-through and underline in the 70 entries below to its Consolidated List of individuals and entities subject to the assets freeze, travel ban and arms embargo set out in paragraph 1 of Security Council resolution 1904 (2009) adopted under Chapter VII of the Charter of the United Nations.

Following is UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s message, as delivered by Jean Christophe Bouvier, Director of United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) Regional Office for Europe, to the Fourth Nevsky International Ecological Congress, in Saint Petersburg, Russian Federation, 16 May:

The following is the text of UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s message for the International Day of United Nations Peacekeepers, observed on 29 May:

The following statement was issued on 15 May by the Spokesperson for UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon:

Following is UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s message, as delivered by Michel Jarraud, Secretary-General of the World Meteorological Organization, to the Sixteenth Meteorological Congress, in Geneva, 16 May: