Press Release

Following is UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s message on International Youth Day, to be observed on 12 August:

Following is United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s message to the Junior Chamber International Leadership Summit, delivered in Geneva by Georg Kell, Executive Director of the United Nations Global Compact, on 28 July:

Following are UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s acceptance remarks upon receiving an honorary doctorate degree from the National University of Mongolia, in Ulaanbaatar, 28 July:

Following is the text of UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s speech as prepared for delivery to the opening ceremony of the Think Tank on Trade and Landlocked Developing Countries, in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia, 27 July:

Following is the text of UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s message to the United Nations International Media Seminar on Peace in the Middle East, as delivered by Kiyo Akasaka, Under-Secretary-General for Communications and Public Information, in Rio de Janeiro, on 27 July:

Following is the text of Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s speech to a gathering of senior Government officials and academics at Government House, in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia, on 27 July:

Following are Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s remarks to the eighth contingent of Mongolian Peacekeepers, in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia, on 26 July:

On 5 August, more than 500 students will gather at the Palais des Nations in Geneva, Switzerland to participate in the first annual Global Model United Nations (GMUN) conference, organized by the United Nations Department of Public Information.

A photographic exhibition entitled "Women, Water and Wells" opens in the North East Gallery of the Visitors Lobby on Wednesday, 29 July at 6 p.m. The exhibition features a selection of photographs by Gil Garcetti that reveal the challenges, hopes and successes experienced by people throughout West Africa -- particularly women -- who are faced with the daily task of providing safe water for their families and communities.

Following is the text of Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s message to the United Nations Global Compact Board members, delivered today in New York by his Deputy Chef de Cabinet, Kim Won-soo: