Following is UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s message, delivered by Wu Hongbo, Under-Secretary-General for Economic and Social Affairs, to the first-ever World Conference on Tourism for Development: “Tourism for Peace and Development”, in Beijing today:
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Following is UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s message on the International Day of United Nations Peacekeepers, “Honouring Our Heroes”, observed on 29 May:
Following is UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s message on the Day of Vesak, to be observed on 20 May:
The following statement was issued today by the Spokesman for UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon:
Yukio Takasu, Under-Secretary-General for Management, will officiate at a ribbon-cutting ceremony for the recently built United Nations Learning Centre for Multilingualism and Career Development, to be held at Headquarters at 10 a.m. on 23 May.
The Committee on the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People will convene the United Nations Seminar on Assistance to the Palestinian People at the 7A Odenplan Conference Centre in Stockholm, Sweden, on 19 and 20 May under the theme “Agenda 2030: Paving the way towards a peaceful, independent and sustainable State of Palestine”.
Following is UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s message on the International Day to End Obstetric Fistula, observed on 23 May:
Following is UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s message, delivered by Rachel Kyte, Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Sustainable Energy for All, to the seventeenth William G. Demas Memorial Lecture, in Montego Bay, Jamaica, today:
Following is UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s message, delivered by Taye-Brook Zerihoun, Assistant Secretary-General for Political Affairs, to the thirteenth General Meeting of Cooperation between the United Nations and the League of Arab States, in Geneva today:
Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon will lead the inaugural ceremony to award the “Captain Mbaye Diagne Medal for Exceptional Courage” as the New York Headquarters observes the International Day of United Nations Peacekeepers on Thursday, 19 May.