United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres announced today the appointment of Benito Andión of Mexico as his Special Envoy to facilitate dialogue in El Salvador.  The new facilitator has the mandate to facilitate dialogue among Salvadorians and to address the key challenges affecting their country.

Following is UN Secretary-General António Guterres’ message, delivered by Miroslav Jenca, Assistant Secretary-General for Political Affairs, on the twenty-fifth anniversary of the Salvadorian Peace Accords, in New York today:

Following is the text of UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s video message for the twenty-fourth anniversary of El Salvador’s peace accords, on 16 January:

Following is UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon‘s message, delivered by Jeffrey Feltman, Under-Secretary-General for Political Affairs, to the high-level event on the Plan of the Alliance for Prosperity in the Northern Triangle, in New York today:

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