Press Release

Following is UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s message, delivered by Margaret Chan, Director-General of the World Health Organization (WHO), to the First Global Ministerial Meeting on Healthy Lifestyles and Non-Communicable Disease Control, in Moscow on 28-29 April:

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

On 20 April 2011, the Committee approved the changes specified with strike-through and underline in the three 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 to the United Nations Seminar on Assistance to the Palestinian People, as delivered by Rima Khalaf, Executive Secretary, United Nations Economic and Social Commission for West Asia, in Helsinki, Finland, 28 April:

The thirty-third annual session of the Committee on Information, the intergovernmental body charged with reviewing progress in the field of United Nations public information, will be held at Headquarters from 27 April to 6 May. During the two-week session, delegations are expected to undertake a wide-ranging review of the Department of Public Information and its three subprogrammes — the News and Media, Outreach and Strategic Communications Divisions.

Following are UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s remarks at a reception to launch the “Champions to End Malaria” photo exhibition in New York, 25 April:

Following are Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s remarks to the General Assembly’s special commemorative meeting in observance of the twenty-fifth anniversary of the Chernobyl disaster, in New York, 26 April:

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

Following are UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s message to the twentieth International Conference on Health and Environment: Global Partners for Global Solutions, delivered by Deputy Secretary-General Asha-Rose Migiro, in New York, 26 April:

Following is the statement by UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on the twenty-fifth anniversary of the Chernobyl disaster, 26 April: