SG/SM/14680-PI/2043
Following are UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s remarks at the Aakash Tablet Event, in New York today:
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SG/SM/14679-NR/231-REC/249
The following is UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s message to the meeting of parties to the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE) Convention on the Protection and Use of Transboundary Watercourses and International Lakes, as delivered by Andrey Vasilyev, Deputy Executive Secretary of the UNECE, in Rome, to be held between 28 and 30 November:
SG/A/1380-AFR/2484-BIO/4433
United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon announced today the appointment of Major General Leonard Muriuki Ngondi of Kenya as the Force Commander for the United Nations Mission in Liberia (UNMIL).
SG/A/1379-BIO/4432-IHA/1302
United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon announced today the appointment of Abdullah al Matouq of Kuwait as his Humanitarian Envoy for Kuwait. The Secretary-General looks forward to Mr. Al Matouq working closely with the Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs to build stronger partnerships in Kuwait and the Gulf Cooperation Council region.
GA/PAL/1249-OBV/1165
The Committee on the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People will hold a special meeting in observance of the International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People in North Lawn Building Conference Room 4 at 10:00 a.m. on Thursday, 29 November 2012, in accordance with General Assembly resolution 32/40 B of 2 December 1977.
DSG/SM/650
Following is UN Deputy Secretary-General Jan Eliasson’s address to the Columbia Law School Center on Global Governance, “Strengthening Peace, Development and Human Rights through the Rule of Law”, in New York on 27 November:
SG/T/2875
In the late afternoon of Monday, 19 November, United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon flew from Sana'a to Cairo to start a shuttle mission to help secure a ceasefire between Gaza and Israel.
SG/T/2874
United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon arrived in Sana'a on the morning of Monday, 19 November, after leaving New York late on Saturday, 17 November, on a flight to Dubai, where he stopped overnight. The Secretary-General spent the day in Yemen to mark the first anniversary of the 23 November conclusion of the Yemen Peace and Transition Agreement and lend his personal support to that transition process.
SG/SM/14678-HR/5115-OBV/1164
Following is UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s message for the International Day of Persons with Disabilities, observed on 3 December:
SG/SM/14677-HR/5114
Following is the text of UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s video message to the opening of the fifth session of the United Nations Forum on Minority Issues in New York today: