Press Release

Following is the text of UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s remarks to the First Ladies Summit of the Fifteenth Non-Aligned Movement Summit, in Sharm El-Sheikh, Egypt, today, 15 July:

Following is the text of UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s speech to the High-Level Segment of the Fifteenth Non-Aligned Movement Summit, in Sharm el‑Sheikh, Egypt, today, 15 July:

The Committee on the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People will convene a United Nations International Meeting on the Question of Palestine on 22 and 23 July 2009 at the United Nations Office at Geneva. The theme of the Meeting is “Responsibility of the international community to uphold international humanitarian law to ensure the protection of civilians in the Occupied Palestinian Territory in the wake of the war in Gaza”.

The United Nations Board of Auditors, the independent external auditors of the United Nations and its funds and programmes, held its sixty-third regular session during the period 9 to 10 July 2009 at United Nations Headquarters in New York. The main purpose of the meeting was to review and approve the audit reports of the Board to be presented to the General Assembly and other legislative/governing bodies.

Following is UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s statement to the Security Council today, 13 July:

Following are UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s remarks to the formal meeting of the Organizational Committee of the Peacebuilding Commission, In New York today, 13 July:

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