SC/11727-PI/2109
The following Security Council press statement was issued today by Council President Cristián Barros Melet (Chile):
In progress at UNHQ
Public information
PI/2106
The United Nations today released the sixty-fourth volume of the Yearbook of the United Nations, covering the Organization’s global activities in 2010.
PI/2107
The multilingual smartphone app The United Nations Calendar of Observances: Making a Difference is now available for free for Android devices in eight languages.
SG/A/1529-BIO/4670-PI/2105
United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon announced today the appointment of Cristina Gallach of Spain as Under-Secretary-General for Communications and Public Information.
PI/2104
The membership of the Multistakeholder Advisory Group of the Internet Governance Forum has been renewed.
PI/2103
The flagship United Nations publication "Basic Facts about the United Nations" has been published in Arabic for the first time in nearly 35 years. With this new edition, the United Nations Department of Public Information seeks to provide hundreds of millions of Arabic speakers around the world with the opportunity to learn more about the Organization and its global activities.
PI/2101
The United Nations and the United Arab Emirates today concluded a memorandum of understanding on the creation of a new Arabic-language version of the handbook Basic Facts about the United Nations, 2014.
PAL/2176-PI/2099
The twenty-second International Media Seminar on Peace in the Middle East concluded today, with two interactive panel discussions that explored Japanese media coverage of events in that region, as well as the use of innovative visual tools to tell stories conveying the stark realities faced by Palestinians and Israelis alike.
PAL/2174-PI/2096
TOKYO, 9 June — In its work to foster peace in the Middle East, the United Nations counted on the diverse contributions of traditional and new media, which played a critical role in promoting transparency and shaping perceptions of the region’s most important challenges, the head of the United Nations Department of Public Information said today, as he opened a two-day international media seminar in Tokyo.
PI/2095
Students from the Bronx High School of Science in New York will present their recommendations for world action to prevent atrocity crimes at the first ever Model United Nations simulation on the Holocaust and Genocide Prevention, to be held on 2 June.