Press Release

Following is UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s remarks at the fifth Global Fund Replenishment Conference, in Montreal today:

United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, accompanied by Madam Ban Soon-taek, left Hangzhou, China, on Tuesday, 6 September, for Vientiane, Lao People’s Democratic Republic, for the 8^th Association of South-East Asian Nations (ASEAN) Summit.

United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, accompanied by Madam Ban Soon‑taek, flew on Friday, 2 September, from Colombo, Sri Lanka, to Hangzhou, China, where they arrived on Saturday, 3 September.

Following are UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s remarks at the appointment ceremony of Nadia Murad Basee Taha as United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) Goodwill Ambassador for the Dignity of Survivors of Human Trafficking, in New York today:

Following are UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s remarks to the General Assembly, as prepared for delivery, on the death of Islam Karimov, President of Uzbekistan, in New York today:

Following is UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s message on the International Day of Peace, to be observed on 21 September:

Following are UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s remarks, as prepared for delivery, at the #WithRefugees Petition Handover, in New York today:

Following are UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s remarks, as prepared for delivery, at the International Day of Peace Student Observance, in New York today:

Following are UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s remarks at the Peace Bell Ceremony to commemorate the International Day of Peace, in New York today:

On 16 September 2016, the Security Council Committee established pursuant to resolution 1518 (2003) approved the removal of the entries specified below from its List of Individuals and Entities subject to the assets freeze set out by paragraph 23 of Security Council resolution 1483 (2003) adopted under Chapter VII of the Charter of the United Nations.