United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has announced the appointment of Kevin Kennedy of the United States as his Deputy Special Representative for the United Nations Stabilization Mission in Haiti.
United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has announced the appointment of Nigel Fisher of Canada as his Deputy Special Representative, Ad Interim, for the United Nations Stabilization Mission in Haiti.
The new Permanent Representative of Honduras to the United Nations, Mary Elizabeth Flores Flake, today presented her credentials to UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon.
The new Permanent Representative of the Philippines to the United Nations, Libran N. Cabactulan, today presented his credentials to UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon.
United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has appointed Tayé-Brook Zerihoun of Ethiopia as the Assistant Secretary-General for Political Affairs in the Department of Political Affairs. Mr. Zerihoun replaces Haile Menkerios of South Africa, who has been appointed as Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Sudan for a one-year period.
A report issued today by United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s Advisory Group on Energy and Climate Change calls for expanding energy access to more than 2 billion people, and for scaling up efforts to increase energy efficiency and clean energy initiatives to meet the climate challenge and realize the Millennium Development Goals.
Following are UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s remarks at the launch of The Sandwich Swap, co-authored by Her Majesty Queen Rania al-Abdullah of Jordan, in New York today, 27 April: