Press Release

Following is UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s message to the Peace Memorial Ceremony, as delivered by Kim Won-soo, Acting High Representative for Disarmament Affairs, in Hiroshima, Japan, on 6 August:

On 6 August 2015, the Security Council Committee pursuant to resolutions 1267 (1999) and 1989 (2011) approved the addition of the entry 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.

The United Nations Regional Centre for Peace and Disarmament in Asia and the Pacific commenced a project on strengthening the national capacity of Maldives to implement the United Nations Programme of Action on the Illicit Trade in Small Arms and Light Weapons and the Arms Trade Treaty.

Following is UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s message, as delivered by Kim Won-soo, Acting High Representative for Disarmament Affairs, for the meeting of Nihon Hidankyo (Japan Confederation of A- and H-Bomb Sufferers Organizations), in Hiroshima today:

United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon travelled to Washington, D.C., on Tuesday morning, 4 August, to meet with United States President Barack Obama.

Following is UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s message, as delivered by Kim Won-soo, Acting High Representative for Disarmament Affairs, for the 2015 International Children’s Peace Forum, in Nagasaki City today:

The following Security Council press statement was issued today by Council President U. Joy Ogwu (Nigeria):

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 Joy Ogwu (Nigeria):