Press Release

Following are UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s remarks at the closing of the “My Planet from Space:  Fragility and Beauty” exhibition, at Headquarters today:

Following are UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s remarks for the tenth meeting of the Implementation Follow-Up Commission of the Doha Document for Peace in Darfur, delivered by Abioudun Oluremi Bashua, African Union-United Nations Acting Joint Special Representative for Darfur, in Doha, Qatar, today:

Following is UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s message for the side event organized by the India, Brazil, South Africa Facility for Poverty and Hunger Alleviation (IBSA Fund), delivered by Under-Secretary General Susana Malcorra, Chef de Cabinet, during the intersessional session of the High-level Committee on South-South Cooperation, on 8 September:

Following is UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s message, delivered by Rima Khalaf, Executive Secretary of the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia, to the International Meeting on the Question of Palestine, held in Brussels from 7 to 8 September:

Following is the text of UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s video message for the World Forestry Congress, in Durban, South Africa, today:

Following is UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s message to the first Review Conference of the Convention on Cluster Munitions, delivered by Virginia Gamba, Director and Deputy to the UN High Representative for Disarmament Affairs, in Dubrovnik, Croatia, today: 

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

Following is UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s message for International Literacy Day, observed 8 September:

United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon announced today the appointment of Major General Muhammad Tayyab Azam of Pakistan as the Force Commander of the United Nations Mission for the Referendum in Western Sahara (MINURSO).

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