Press Release

Following is the text of UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s statement on the nuclear test announced by the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, in New York today:

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

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 Elbio Rosselli (Uruguay):

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 Samantha Power (United States):

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

On 22 December Ambassador Román Oyarzun Marchesi briefed the United Nations Security Council on the work of the 1540 Committee in its task of overseeing the implementation of resolution 1540 (2004).  The Ambassador emphasized that the resolution is the keystone in the architecture of the non-proliferation regime intended to prevent non-State actors from obtaining weapons of mass destruction, and their means of delivery.  The relentless increase in extreme violence being perpetrated by terrorists is of grave concern, and we must be ever more vigilant in preventing such violence, including the potentially catastrophic use of weapons of mass destruction.  

On 30 December 2015, 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:

Following is UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s message on the occasion of the inauguration of Roch Marc Christian Kaboré as President of Burkina Faso, in Ouagadougou today: