Press Release

The “International Conference in Nagasaki — Towards a World Free of Nuclear Weapons” will take place in Nagasaki, Japan, from 11 to 14 December.

Following is UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s remarks at the Sheikh Tamim Bin Hamad Al Thani Anti-Corruption Excellence Awards, in Vienna, today:

Following is UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s message to the twenty-third Ministerial Council of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE), delivered by Petko Draganov, Special Representative and Head of the United Nations Regional Centre for Preventive Diplomacy for Central Asia, in Hamburg, Germany, today:

Following are UN Deputy Secretary-General Jan Eliasson’s remarks at the Annual Gareth Evans Lecture on the Responsibility to Protect and Mass Atrocity Prevention, in New York today:

Following is the UN Secretary-General’s message on the International Day of Commemoration and Dignity of the Victims of the Crime of Genocide and of the Prevention of this Crime, on 9 December:

Following is the text of UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s video message to the ninth Bali Democracy Forum, in Bali, Indonesia, today:

Following are UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s remarks at the Habibi & Hawara restaurant in Vienna, Austria, today:

Following are UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s remarks to inaugurate the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) branding at the Vienna International Centre, in Vienna today:

The following Security Council press statement was issued today by Council President Román Oyarzun Marchesi (Spain):

The text of Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s video message to the Paris meeting of partners of Burkina Faso for the National Plan for Economic and Social Development 2016-2020 is not available in English.  For the French text, please see www.un.org/press/fr/2016/sgsm18337.doc.htm.