Press Release

Following is UN Deputy Secretary-General Asha-Rose Migiro’s address to the opening of the Regional Coordination Mechanism meeting at the Economic Commission for Africa (ECA) in Addis Ababa on 5 November:

PORT-OF-SPAIN, 13 November -- The Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) Subregional Headquarters for the Caribbean is convening a Regional Expert Group Meeting on Knowledge Management for Development, to be held at its office in Port-of-Spain, Trinidad and Tobago, on Tuesday 17 November.

The Eighth United Nations-Republic of Korea Joint Conference on Disarmament and Non-proliferation Issues will take place in Jeju Island, Republic of Korea, from 16 to 18 November.

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

Following is the text of UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s message for the International Day for Tolerance, on 16 November:

Following is the text of UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s message for Africa Industrialization Day, 20 November:

Tomorrow, 13 November, the Dag Hammarskjöld Library will officially launch “UN Member States on the Record”, a new research tool which will dramatically facilitate research on the work and actions of each Member State, and make information more accessible and easy to find.

Following is UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s message to the eleventh annual Conference of the High Contracting Parties to Amended Protocol II to the Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons (CCW), in Geneva, today, 11 November:

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 open debate of the Security Council on the protection of civilians in armed conflict, in New York, today, 11 November: