Press Release

The following Security Council press statement was issued today by Council President Ismael Abraão Gaspar Martins (Angola):

Following are UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s remarks at the General Assembly meeting to mark the International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination:  “Challenges and Achievements of the Durban Declaration and Programme of Action — 15 Years After,” in New York today:

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

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

The text of UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s remarks, as delivered by Edmond Mulet, Chef de Cabinet, at the Francophone cultural night is not available in English.

Following is the text of UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s video message to the Human Rights Council panel discussion on the human dimensions of preventing and countering violent extremism, in Geneva today:

Following is UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s message on World Down Syndrome Day, observed on 21 March:

Following are UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s remarks, as prepared for delivery, at the forty-seventh Annual Herbert H. Lehman Memorial Lecture at Lehman College, in New York today:

Following is UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s message for the International Day of Remembrance of the Victims of Slavery and the Transatlantic Slave Trade, observed on 25 March:

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