Press Release

United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon flew on Saturday, 11 April, from Panama City, Panama, to Doha, Qatar, to attend the thirteenth UN Congress on Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice.

United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, accompanied by Madam Ban Soon-taek, arrived in Panama City, from New York on Thursday, 9 April, to attend the seventh Summit of the Americas.

Following are UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s remarks at the appointment of British Actor Daniel Craig as the United Nations Global Advocate for the Elimination of Mines and other Explosive Hazards, in New York today:

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

Following is a statement issued by UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today on the one-year anniversary of the abduction of schoolgirls in Chibok, north-eastern Nigeria:

The Secretary-General of the United Nations designated the actor Daniel Craig as the first United Nations Global Advocate for the Elimination of Mines and other Explosive Hazards today.

Following are UN Deputy Secretary-General Jan Eliasson’s remarks to the United Nations Development Programme Seoul Policy Centre and Korea University, titled “The New Global Landscape: Challenges for the United Nations and Its Member States”, in Seoul, today:

Following is UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s message to the Commission on Population and Development, delivered by Wu Hongbo, Under-Secretary-General for Economic and Social Affairs, in New York today:

Following is UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s video message to the Universal Postal Union Strategy Conference, taking place from 13 to 14 April 2015 in Geneva:

Following is UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s message, as delivered by Miguel de Serpa Soares, Under-Secretary-General for Legal Affairs, to the fifty-fourth annual session of the Asian-African Legal Consultative Organization (AALCO), taking place in Beijing from 13-17 April 2015: