Press Release

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

The United Nations Peacebuilding Commission has welcomed a report by the Secretary-General on peacebuilding in the immediate aftermath of conflict, delivered to the Security Council today. The report follows a request from the Security Council last year and is part of a series of related initiatives aimed at consolidating and strengthening the United Nations response in the area of peace and security.

The following is a statement by the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, Navi Pillay, on the importance of the responsibility to protect in saving lives:

Following are UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s remarks to the Security Council on post-conflict peacebuilding in New York, today, 22 July:

Following is UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s message to the United Nations International Meeting on the Question of Palestine, delivered by Sergei Ordzhonikidze, Director-General of the United Nations Office at Geneva, today, 22 July:

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

On 20 July 2009, the Security Council’s Al-Qaida and Taliban Sanctions Committee approved the deletion (de-listing) of the two entries specified below from its Consolidated List. The Committee approved these de-listings following its review of the two names, as called for in paragraph 25 of Security Council resolution 1822 (2008).

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 to the General Assembly on the Responsibility to Protect, in New York, today, 21 July:

Nobel Laureate Jody Williams and Miguel Marin-Bosch, former Permanent Representative of Mexico to the United Nations in Geneva, are among a list of distinguished keynote speakers attending the Sixty-Second Annual DPI/NGO Conference, which will take place in Mexico City from 9-11 September.