SECRETARY-GENERAL, IN MESSAGE TO MEETING ON CONVENTIONAL WEAPONS, CALLS

FOR LEGALLY BINDING TREATY PROHIBITING ‘HORRENDOUS’ CLUSTER MUNITIONS

LINKS BETWEEN UNITED NATIONS, REGIONAL ENTITIES OF GROWING IMPORTANCE

IN PEACEKEEPING OPERATIONS, SECRETARY-GENERAL TELLS SECURITY COUNCIL

SECRETARY-GENERAL, IN MESSAGE TO CONFERENCE ON CONVENTIONAL WEAPONS CONVENTION

PROTOCOL II, URGES RENEWED EFFORTS FOR ELIMINATION OF LANDMINES

SECRETARY-GENERAL DEEPLY SADDENED BY DEPLORABLE SUICIDE ATTACK TODAY IN NORTHERN

AFGHANISTAN, REPORTEDLY KILLING MORE THAN 40 CIVILIANS, WOUNDING EVEN MORE

 

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

SECRETARY-GENERAL CALLS EXPLOSIVE REMNANTS OF WAR ‘HORRENDOUS AND SILENT HAZARDS’,

IN MESSAGE TO PROTOCOL V STATES PARTIES, CERTAIN CONVENTIONAL WEAPONS CONVENTION

SECRETARY-GENERAL, CONCERNED AT RECENT FIGHTING IN AFGHANISTAN, UNDERLINES CRUCIAL

ROLE OF NATO, AFGHAN SECURITY FORCES IN DETERRING TERRORIST, EXTREMIST GROUPS

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

SECRETARY-GENERAL, IN REMARKS TO ISTANBUL MEETING, SAYS IT IS IN BEST INTEREST

 

ON TENTH ANNIVERSARY OF CHEMICAL WEAPONS CONVENTION, SECRETARY-GENERAL URGES

TREATY’S UNIVERSALIZATION, DESTRUCTION OF STOCKPILES BY AGREED DEADLINES

SECRETARY-GENERAL SAYS ‘ROTARIANS’ BUILD BETTER LIVES FOR PEOPLE WORLDWIDE,

INCLUDING IN HIS NATIVE KOREA, IN MESSAGE TO ROTARY INTERNATIONAL DAY

SECRETARY-GENERAL EXPRESSES STRONG DISMAY AT DETENTION IN PAKISTAN OF HUMAN

RIGHTS, OPPOSITION ACTIVISTS, INCLUDING UN SPECIAL RAPPORTEUR

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