Press Release

United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon arrived in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, from Amman, Jordan, on Wednesday evening, 23 July. This was the sixth leg of his Middle East tour.

United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon arrived in Amman, Jordan, from Jerusalem in the late afternoon of Wednesday, 23 July. This was the fifth leg of his Middle East visit.

Upon arrival at Ben Gurion Airport in Israel — the fourth stop on his Middle East journey — in the early afternoon of Tuesday, 22 July, United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon was greeted by Ya’akov Peri, Minister of Science and Technology. From the airport, the Secretary-General travelled by road directly to Tel Aviv to meet at the Ministry of Defense with Israeli Defense Minister Moshe Ya’alon.

United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon arrived in Cairo in the late afternoon of Monday, 21 July, on the third leg of his visit to the Middle East.

United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon arrived in Kuwait from Doha, Qatar, on Monday, 21 July, on the second stop of a visit to the Middle East.

United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon arrived in Doha, Qatar, from New York on Sunday, 20 July, on the first stop of a visit to the Middle East.