Press Release

Following are UN Secretary-GeneralBan Ki-moon’s remarks on the fiftieth anniversary of the Declaration on the Granting of Independence to Colonial Countries and Peoples, in New York, 14 December:

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

Following are UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s remarks to the replenishment conference for the Central Emergency Response Fund (CERF), in New York, 14 December:

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:

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 are UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s remarks on the International Year for People of African Descent, launched at United Nations Headquarters on 10 December: