Press Release

United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon arrived in Washington, D.C., from Sweden, on Thursday afternoon, 31 March.

Following is UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s message delivered by Wu Hongbo, Under-Secretary-General for Economic and Social Affairs, to the Vulnerable Twenty (V20) Group, in Washington, D.C., today:

Following are UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s remarks to the open debate of the Security Council on countering terrorism, in New York today:

On 6 April 2016, the Security Council Committee established pursuant to resolution 751 (1992) concerning Somalia and Eritrea received a letter dated 6 April 2016 from the Coordinator of the Monitoring Group on Somalia and Eritrea providing it with new information regarding Mr. Mohamed Abukar Zubeyr.

The following statement was issued today by the Spokesman for UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon:

The United Nations Department of Public Information will host a briefing to non-governmental organizations (NGOs) from 11 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. on 14 April, on “The Musical Journey of the African Diaspora”, in Conference Room 11 at United Nations Headquarters in New York.

Following are UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s remarks, as prepared for delivery, at the High-Level Meeting on Resilience, in New York today:

The new Permanent Representative of Canada to the United Nations, Marc-André Blanchard, presented his credentials to UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today.

The new Permanent Representative of Kyrgyzstan to the United Nations, Mirgul Moldoisaeva, presented her credentials to UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today.

The new Permanent Representative of Grenada to the United Nations, Keisha A. McGuire, presented her credentials to UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today.