Press Release

Following is the text of UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s video message to the Eighteenth Winter Deaflympics taking place in Khanty-Mansiysk and Magnitogorsk, Russian Federation, from 28 March to 5 April:

Following is UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s video message for Earth Hour 2015, observed on 28 March:

Following is UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s message to the United Nations Seminar on Assistance to the Palestinian People, to be held in Vienna on 31 March:

Following are UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s remarks at the Security Council open debate on victims of attacks and abuses on ethnic or religious grounds in the Middle East, in New York today:

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

Following are UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s remarks to the Chiefs of Defence Conference, in New York today:

Following are UN Deputy Secretary-General Jan Eliasson’s closing remarks, as prepared for delivery, at the Chiefs of Defence Conference in New York today:

On 26 March 2015, the Security Council Committee established pursuant to resolution 1970 (2011) concerning Libya updated the entries specified below to its Sanctions List.

On 27 March 2015, the Security Council Committee established pursuant to resolution 1988 (2011) approved the addition of the entries specified below to the Committee’s List (the 1988 List) of individuals and entities subject to the assets freeze, travel ban and arms embargo set out in paragraph 1 of Security Council resolution 2160 (2014).

The following Security Council press statement was issued today by Council President François Delattre (France):