Press Release

The following Security Council press statement was read out today by Council President Susan Rice (United States):

Following is UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s video message for the Luxor Forum against Human Trafficking at Luxor, Egypt, on 11 December:

International, regional and subregional organizations will participate in a meeting on cooperation in promoting the implementation of United Nations Security Council resolution 1540 (2004) at the Hofburg Congress Centre in Vienna, Austria, from 15 to 16 December.

Following is the text of UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s message, as delivered by B. Lynn Pascoe, Under-Secretary-General for Political Affairs, to the International Conference on the Fifteenth Anniversary of Turkmenistan’s Permanent Neutrality, in Ashgabat, 11 December:

Following is UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s statement on the outcome of the climate change negotiations in Cancun, Mexico:

Following is UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s message for International Human Solidarity Day, to be observed on 20 December:

Following is UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s message for United Nations Day for South-South Cooperation, observed on 19 December:

United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has appointed Yukio Takasu of Japan as Special Adviser on Human Security. Mr. Takasu has played a pivotal role in advancing a greater understanding on the notion of human security, both within the United Nations and outside, for more than 10 years. In 2006, Mr. Takasu initiated the formation of the Friends of Human Security, an informal network to follow up the 2005 United Nations Summit Outcome document.

Following are UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s remarks at a Human Rights Day event entitled “Speak Up, Stop Discrimination”, organized by the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights and held in the Ford Foundation Auditorium in New York, 9 December:

Following are UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s remarks at the event on “Ending Violence and Criminal Sanctions Based on Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity” in New York today, 10 December: