Following are UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s remarks, delivered in French, at his meeting with the Burundian Battalion of the African Union Mission in Somalia (AMISOM) in Bujumbura, Burundi, today, 9 June:
United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today announced the appointment of Augustine P. Mahigaof the United Republic of Tanzania as his Special Representative for Somalia and Head of the United Nations Political Office for Somalia (UNPOS). Mr. Mahiga replaces Mr. Ahmedou Ould-Abdallah ( Mauritania) who has served in the position from September 2007.
Following is UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s message to the forty-fifth annual meeting of the African Development Bank and thirty-sixth meeting of the African Development Fund, delivered by Abdoulie Janneh, Executive Secretary, Economic Commission for Africa (ECA), in Abidjan, 27 May: