Press Release

On 28 September 2015, the Security Council Committee pursuant to resolutions 1267 (1999) and 1989 (2011) concerning Al-Qaida and associated individuals and entities removed the names below from the Al-Qaida Sanctions List.

The following Security Council press statement was issued today by Council President Vitaly I. Churkin (Russian Federation):

On 30 September, United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon will convene a high-level meeting at Headquarters on migration and refugee movements.  All Member States have been invited at the highest level to the event, which will be held on the side-lines of the high-level segment of the seventieth session of the United Nations General Assembly.

Following is UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s toast at the lunch for Heads of State and Government, in New York today:

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

The following communiqué was issued by the co-chairs of the high-level meeting on Somalia held in New York today:

Following is UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s message, delivered by Achim Steiner, Executive Director of the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), to the UNEP Champions of the Earth Award ceremony, in New York today:

Following are UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s remarks at an event for the presentation of a gift from the People’s Republic of China, in New York today:

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

Following are UN Deputy Secretary-General Jan Eliasson’s remarks, as prepared for delivery, at the high-level special event on “Catalysing Implementation and Achievement of the Water-Related Sustainable Development Goals”, in New York today: