Press Release

On the side-lines of the busy seventieth general debate at United Nations Headquarters, 24 Member States undertook 31 treaty actions in an annual four-day event that ended yesterday.

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:

Following is the text of UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s video message for the sixth International Military Sports Council Military World Summer Games, in Mungyeong, Republic of Korea, today:

On 2 October 2015, the Security Council Committee pursuant to resolutions 1267 (1999) and 1989 (2011) approved the addition of the entries specified below to its Al-Qaida Sanctions List of individuals and entities subject to the assets freeze, travel ban and arms embargo set out in paragraph 1 of Security Council resolution 2161 (2014) adopted under Chapter VII of the Charter of the United Nations:

Following are UN Deputy Secretary-General remarks, as prepared for delivery, to the Organization of Islamic Conference (OIC) annual coordination meeting, today in New York:

Following are UN Deputy Secretary-General Jan Eliasson’s remarks at the ministerial consultative meeting on the Malian peace process, in New York today:

Following are UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s remarks, as prepared for delivery, at the Pacific Islands Forum, in New York, today:

Following are UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s remarks at the high-level thematic debate of the General Assembly marking the seventieth anniversary of the United Nations under the theme:  “maintenance of international peace and security”, in New York today:

Following is UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s message for the International Day of Non-violence, observed on 2 October: