Following is UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s message, delivered by Tayé-Brook Zerihoun, Assistant Secretary-General for Political Affairs, to the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) Meeting on the Sahel, held in Washington, D.C., on 9 October:
Following is UN Deputy Secretary-General Jan Eliasson’s remarks, as prepared for delivery, at the briefing on the work of African Regional Economic Communities, in New York, 1 October: