Press Release

A ministerial-level meeting of the International Support Group for Lebanon was chaired by United Nations Secretary-General, Ban Ki-moon, on 30 September 2015 at United Nations Headquarters in New York.

Following are UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s remarks at the Security Council ministerial meeting on “Maintenance of international peace and security:  Settlement of conflicts in the Middle East and North Africa and countering the terrorist threat in the region”, in New York today:

Following is UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s message, delivered by Adama Dieng, Special Adviser on Prevention of Genocide, to the ministerial round table on the responsibility to protect, in New York today:

Following are UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s remarks at his final meeting with the Millennium Development Goals (MDG) Advocacy Group, in New York today:

Following is UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s message, as delivered by Zeid Ra’ad al-Hussein, United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, to the high-level meeting on moving away from the death penalty:  “The Voices of Victims’ Families”, in New York today:

The Joint Communiqué on the Meeting of Foreign Ministers of the G-5 Sahel and the United Nations is not available in English.

Following is UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s message, delivered by Hervé Ladsous, Under-Secretary-General for Peacekeeping Operations, to the ministerial-level reception on mine action, in New York today:

Following are UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s remarks to the ninth Conference on Facilitating Entry into Force of the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty (CTBT), in New York today:

Following are UN Deputy Secretary-General Jan Eliasson’s remarks, as prepared for delivery, at the informal ministerial-level meeting on the Syrian crisis, in New York today:

Following are UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s remarks to the high-level LGBT (lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender) Core Group event, titled “Leaving No One Behind:  Equality & Inclusion in the Post-2015 Development Agenda”, in New York today: