Press Release

Following are UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s remarks on receiving the Polio Champion Award from Rotary International, in Birmingham, United Kingdom, on Sunday, 21 June:

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

The following press statement on Somalia was read out today by Council President Baki İlkin (Turkey):

Following is the text of UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s video message to the International Labour Conference in Geneva today, 19 June:

A regional workshop on implementation of Security Council resolution 1540 (2004) will be held on 23-25 June in Colombo, Sri Lanka. The workshop is jointly organized by Sri Lanka and the United States, in cooperation with the United Nations Office for Disarmament Affairs.

Following are UN Deputy Secretary-General Asha-Rose Migiro’s remarks at the Twenty-Ninth Conference of European Ministers of Justice, “Breaking the Silence -- United against Domestic Violence”, in Tromsø, Norway, on 18 June:

Following is UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s message on sickle-cell anaemia, issued today, 19 June:

The following Security Council press statement on the United Nations Regional Centre for Preventive Diplomacy for Central Asia was read out today by Council President Baki İlkin (Turkey):

The nineteenth Meeting of States parties to the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea will be held at Headquarters from 22 to 26 June.

Following is UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s message on the International Day against Drug Abuse and Illicit Trafficking, observed 26 June: