Ban Ki-moon on his relations with the press:

My relationship with the media will be crucial to my efforts to make the mission of the UN better known, and better understood, by people around the world.

Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon appoints Martin Nesirky of the United Kingdom as his Spokesperson. Mr. Nesirky comes to the United Nations from the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE), where he served for more than three years as Spokesperson and Head of Press and Public Information. He also served for more than two decades as an international correspondent and editor for Reuters, working in Moscow, Berlin, The Hague and Seoul.