Press Release

Following is UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s message for the International Day of Yoga, observed on 21 June:

Following are UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s remarks at the General Assembly briefing on global health crises, in New York today:

On 13 June 2016, the Security Council Committee established pursuant to resolution 2127 (2013) concerning the Central African Republic held informal consultations to consider the report of the Chair’s visit to the Central African Republic, which took place from 25 to 27 May 2016.

Following is the text of UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s video message to the global celebration of the World Day to Combat Desertification, in Beijing today:

Following is UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s message on the International Day in Support of Victims of Torture, observed on 26 June:

Following is UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s message, delivered by David Nabarro, Special Adviser on the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, to the High-Level Panel on Aligning Institutions to Support the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), at the European Development Days, in Brussels today:

The Security Council considered a progress report (document S/2016/530) of the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons-United Nations Joint Investigative Mechanism, pursuant to resolution 2235 (2015).

Following is the text of UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s video message to the sixty-first World Conference of the International Council for Small Business (ICSB), in New York today

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

Resolution 1540 (2004) is a key instrument in global efforts to prevent the proliferation of nuclear, chemical, and biological weapons and their means of delivery to non-State actors, in particular to terrorists.