Press Release

Following is UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s speech to the Third World Climate Conference in Geneva today, 3 September:

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 Global Seed Vault in Longyearbyen, Norway today, 2 September:

Following are UN Deputy Secretary-General Asha-Rose Migiro’s remarks at the opening of the Second Conference of States Parties to the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities in New York today, 2 September:

The following statement was issued 31 August by the Spokesperson for UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon:

Countries bound by the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities will meet in New York on 24 September to explore practical means of strengthening efforts to protect the rights of the 650 million persons with disabilities worldwide, as disability rights have gained new ground since the Convention’s 2006 entry into force.

Following is UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s speech to the European Forum Alpbach Political Symposium, “Trust and Renewed Multilateralism”, delivered in Alpbach, Austria, 30 August:

Following a recent mission to Bolivia and Paraguay, the United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues released two reports today expressing grave concern over forced labour suffered by indigenous peoples in the Chaco regions of those two countries.

Following are UN Deputy Secretary-General Asha-Rose Migiro’s remarks on the marine environment to the Ad Hoc Working Group of the Whole, in New York, today, 31 August: