Press Release

Following is UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s message on the fortieth anniversary of the entry into force of the Biological Weapons Convention, today:

Following are UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s remarks at a meeting of the General Assembly on the International Day of Remembrance of the Victims of Slavery and the Transatlantic Slave Trade, in New York today:

Following are UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s remarks at the unveiling of the permanent memorial to the victims of the transatlantic slave trade, in New York today:

Following are UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s remarks to the Security Council at the open debate on children and armed conflict, in New York today:

Following is UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s message, delivered by Georg Kell, Executive Director of the United Nations Global Compact, for the Sedex [Supplier Ethical Data Exchange] Global Responsible Sourcing Conference, in London today:

United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon arrived in Rome in the evening of 17 March, from Tokyo, Japan.

Following is the text of UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s message for the International Day of Solidarity with Detained and Missing Staff Members, observed today:

The United Nations Staff Union and its Standing Committee on the Security and Independence of the International Civil Service today called on State authorities and armed groups to immediately release United Nations personnel unlawfully arrested and detained.

United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, accompanied by Madam Ban Soon-taek, arrived in Tokyo in the afternoon of Friday, 13 March.  They then flew to the city of Sendai, in the north of Japan, arriving on the same evening.

Following is UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s message for the International Day for the Right to the Truth Concerning Gross Human Rights Violations and for the Dignity of Victims, observed today: