Press Release

On 12 May 2016, the Security Council Committee established pursuant to resolution 1970 (2011) concerning Libya removed the entry specified below from its List of individuals and entities subject to the assets freeze, travel ban and other measures relating to attempts to illicitly export crude oil from Libya (the Libya Sanctions List), set out in paragraphs 15 and 17 of Security Council resolution 1970 (2011), paragraph 19 of resolution 1973 (2011) and paragraph 10 of resolution 2146 (2014), adopted under Chapter VII of the Charter of the United Nations.

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:

Following are UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s remarks, as prepared for delivery, at a meeting with Syrian students, in Lisbon today:

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

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

Following are UN Deputy Secretary-General Jan Eliasson’s remarks at the High-Level Meeting on “Sustaining Peace:  Mechanisms, Partnerships and the Future of Peacebuilding in Africa”, in New York today:

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

On 4 May, a message from the Chair of the Security Council Committee established pursuant to resolution 1540 (2004) was delivered to a Dialogue Meeting of the Forum for Security Cooperation of the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) by José Javier Gutiérrez Blanco-Navarrete, Permanent Mission of Spain to the United Nations.

The Chairperson of the African Union Commission, Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma, and the Secretary-General of the United Nations, Ban Ki-moon, condemn Monday’s attacks by armed groups on an internally displaced persons camp and the shooting at a nearby market in Sortoni, North Darfur.

Following is UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s message on the International Day for Biological Diversity, observed on 22 May: