Press Release

Following is UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s message on the International Day of Forests, to be observed on 21 March:

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, as prepared for delivery, at the Japanese Global Compact Local Network, in Tokyo today:

Following are UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s remarks at the United Nations high-level event on “Uniting Nations, People and Action for Resilience”, in Sendai, Japan, today:

Following are UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s remarks at the opening of the third United Nations World Conference on Disaster Risk Reduction, in Sendai, Japan today:

Following is UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s message, as delivered by Li Yong, Director General of the United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO), to the Egypt Economic Development Conference, held in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt, from 13 to 15 March:

On 13 March 2015, the Security Council Committee pursuant to resolutions 1267 (1999) and 1989 (2011) approved the addition of the entries 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.

Following are the closing remarks of UN Deputy Secretary-General Jan Eliasson, as prepared for delivery, at the Commission on the Status of Women Intergenerational Dialogue on Gender Equality and Women’s Empowerment, held in New York today:

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

Following is UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s message on World Tuberculosis Day, to be observed on 24 March: