Press Release

Following is UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s message to the United Nations Association of the United Kingdom Annual Conference in Edinburgh today, 5 June:

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

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

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

Following is UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s message on World Oceans Day, observed 8 June:

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

On 3 June 2009, the Security Council Al-Qaida and Taliban Sanctions Committee approved the amendments specified with strikethrough and underline in the entries below to its Consolidated List of individuals and entities subject to the assets freeze, travel ban and arms embargo set out in paragraph 1 of Security Council resolution 1822 (2008) adopted under Chapter VII of the Charter of the United Nations.

The United Nations Committee on the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People will convene the United Nations Asian and Pacific Meeting on the Question of Palestine on 8 and 9 June 2009 at the Hotel Borobudur in Jakarta. The theme of the Meeting is “Strengthening international consensus on the urgency of achieving a two-State solution”. It will be followed, on 10 June 2009, by the United Nations Public Forum in Support of the Palestinian People.

The United Nations Secretariat today signed a key cooperation agreement with the International Chamber of Commerce’s World Chambers Federation at the sixth World Chambers Congress, which began this morning in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, and ends on 6 June.

Following are UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s remarks at a lunch in honour of the centenary of the birth of U Thant, in New York, 3 June: