Press Release

The following Security Council press statement was issued today by Council President Rafael Darío Ramírez Carreño (Venezuela):

The following statement by the Middle East Quartet (United Nations, Russian Federation, United States, European Union) was issued today:

The following is UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s keynote address, as prepared for delivery, at McGill University’s event on “Threats and opportunities: the power of young people to shape a new future”, in Montreal today:

United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, accompanied by Madam Ban Soon-taek, departed Oman for the United Kingdom on Tuesday afternoon, 2 February.

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

Following are UN Secretary‑General Ban Ki‑moon’s remarks to the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) Council, in Montreal today:

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

Following is Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s message, delivered by Gyan Chandra Acharya, High Representative for the Least Developed Countries, Landlocked Developing Countries and Small Island Developing States, to the General Assembly special event “Building Synergy and Coherence in the Implementation of the Istanbul Programme of Action in the Context of the 2030 Sustainable Development Agenda”, in New York today:

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

On 11 February 2016, the Security Council Committee pursuant to resolutions 1267 (1999), 1989 (2011) and 2253 (2015) enacted the amendments specified with underline and strikethrough in the entry below on its ISIL (Da’esh) and Al-Qaida Sanctions List of individuals and entities subject to the assets freeze, travel ban and arms embargo set out in paragraph 2 of Security Council resolution 2253(2015) adopted under Chapter VII of the Charter of the United Nations: