Press Release

Following are UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s closing remarks at the signature ceremony for the Paris Agreement on climate change, in New York today:

Following is UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s message on International Mother Earth Day, observed today:

Following are UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s remarks at the signature ceremony for the Paris Agreement, in New York today:

The Leadership Panel of the Joint Investigative Mechanism, mandated to identify those responsible for the use of chemical weapons in Syria, pursuant to Security Council resolution 2235 (2015), completed visits to Berlin and Tehran.

United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon and World Bank Group President Jim Yong Kim announced today the appointment of 10 Heads of State and Government, as well as two Special Advisers, to the High-Level Panel on Water.

The following Security Council press statement was issued today by Council President Liu Jieyi (China):

Following are UN Deputy Secretary-General Jan Eliasson’s remarks at the General Assembly High-Level Thematic Debate on Achieving the Sustainable Development Goals, in New York today:

The twenty-ninth session of the United Nations Group of Experts on Geographical Names will convene from 25 to 29 April, at the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP) Conference Centre in Bangkok.

Following are UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s remarks, as prepared for delivery, at Erasmus University, in Rotterdam, Netherlands, today:

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