Press Release

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

Yukio Takasu, Under-Secretary-General for Management, will officiate at a ribbon-cutting ceremony for the recently built United Nations Learning Centre for Multilingualism and Career Development, to be held at Headquarters at 10 a.m. on 23 May.

Following is UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s message on the International Day to End Obstetric Fistula, observed on 23 May:

Following is UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s message, delivered by Taye-Brook Zerihoun, Assistant Secretary-General for Political Affairs, to the thirteenth General Meeting of Cooperation between the United Nations and the League of Arab States, in Geneva today:

Following are UN Deputy Secretary-General Jan Eliasson’s remarks at the Habitat III Informal Hearings with local authorities associations, in New York today:

Following is UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s message, delivered by Shamshad Akhtar, Executive Secretary of the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP), at its seventy-second session, in Bangkok today:

Following is UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s message, delivered by Mohamed Ibn Chambas, Special Representative of the Secretary-General and Head of the United Nations Office for West Africa and the Sahel, to the second Regional Security Summit, in Abuja today:

The Secretary-General of the United Nations, Ban Ki-moon, and the Chairperson of the African Union Commission, Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma, welcome the peaceful conduct of the partial re-run for the elections of President of Comoros and Governor of the Autonomous Island of Anjouan.

The following Security Council press statement was issued today by Council President Amr Abdellatif Aboulatta (Egypt):

Following is UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s message, delivered by Helen Clark, Administrator of the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), to the Anti-Corruption Summit, in London today: