Press Release

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 video message to the American Film Institute tribute to Michael Douglas on 11 June:

Following is UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s message to mark the 100-day countdown to the International Day of Peace, beginning on 13 June:

Following is UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s message on the World Day to Combat Desertification and Drought, to be observed on 17 June:

Following are UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s remarks to the high-level special session of the Peacebuilding Commission on Sierra Leone in New York, 10 June:

Following is the text of UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s video message for the International Scientific Studies Conference in Vienna today, 10 June:

Following is UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s statement on the election of Ali Abdussalam Treki as President of the sixty-fourth session of the General Assembly, in New York today, 10 June:

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

The Department of Public information partnered with the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) to organize an international videoconference on 2 June to mark World Environment Day, which focused on youth action for the “Seal the Deal” campaign in preparation for the Copenhagen meeting on climate change in December, and on student action to save the environment.