Press Release

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

Following are UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s remarks at the University of Calgary, in Calgary, Canada, today:

On 12 August 2016, the Security Council Committee established pursuant to resolution 1518 (2003) approved the removal of the two entries specified below from its List of Individuals and Entities subject to the assets freeze set out by paragraph 23 of Security Council resolution 1483 (2003) adopted under Chapter VII of the Charter of the United Nations:

United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today announced the appointment of Werner Faymann of Austria, as his Special Envoy on Youth Employment.

Following are UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s remarks, as prepared for delivery, at the discussion with Congressman Edward Royce, in Los Angeles on 10 August:

The members of the Security Council welcomed the signing on 8 August of the Roadmap Agreement by the Justice and Equality Movement, the Sudan Liberation Movement-Minni Minnawi, the Sudan People’s Liberation Movement-North, and the National Umma Party.

Following is UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s message to the 2016 Summer Youth Assembly at the United Nations, as delivered by David Nabarro Special Adviser to the Secretary-General on the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, in New York today:

Following is UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s message, delivered by Weixiong Chen, Deputy Executive Director, Counter-Terrorism Committee Executive Directorate to League of Arab States Summit, to the international meeting on countering cross-border movement of terrorism, in Bali, Indonesia, today:

Following are UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s remarks to a back-to-school event for resettled refugee children, in Los Angeles today:

Following is UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s message, delivered by Gyan Chandra Acharya, High Representative for the Least Developed Countries, Landlocked Developing Countries and Small Island Developing States, to the high-level symposium on Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 6 and target ensuring that no one is left behind in access to water and sanitation, in Dushanbe, Tajikistan, today: