Press Release

Following is UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s message to the event marking the Centenary of the birth of U Thant in New Delhi today, 1 February:

Following is Deputy Secretary-General Asha-Rose Migiro’s statement to the Ad Hoc Open-ended Informal Working Group to study issues relating to the conservation and sustainable use of marine biological diversity beyond areas of national jurisdiction in New York, 1 February:

A Working Group established by the United Nations General Assembly will meet from 1 to 5 February in New York to consider how to continue and strengthen efforts aimed at the conservation and sustainable use of marine biodiversity beyond areas of national jurisdiction.

A one-day meeting will be held at United Nations Headquarters in New York on Monday, 1 February, to accelerate the pace by which decisions on sustainable development are turned into action.

Following are UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s opening remarks to the London Conference on Afghanistan, today, 28 January:

Following is UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s message to the memorial service for staff of the United Nations Stabilization Mission in Haiti (MINUSTAH), delivered by Edmond Mulet, Acting Special Representative of the Secretary-General, in Port-au-Prince today, 28 January:

Following is UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s video message for the Follow-up Conference on the International Year of Sanitation, in Tokyo from 26‑27 January:

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 remarks at the opening of the exhibition “Architecture of Murder”, in conjunction with the International Day in Memory of the Victims of the Holocaust, in New York, today, 26 January:

On 25 January 2010, the Security Council Al-Qaida and Taliban Sanctions Committee approved the deletion (de-listing) of the five entries specified below from its Consolidated List. These de-listings are a result of the review of the Consolidated List called for in paragraph 25 of Security Council resolution 1822 (2008).