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19 October 2011

SG/SM/13888-SC/10416-AFR/2268

Secretary-General, at Security Council Meeting on Issue of Piracy in Gulf of Guinea, Announces Imminent Deployment of Assessment Mission to Region

This is the text of remarks by UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon in the Security Council today, at the outset of the Council’s meeting on “Peace and Security in Africa: Piracy in the Gulf of Guinea”:

19 October 2011

SG/SM/13887

Volunteers, as They Carry Out Daily, Quiet Work Needed to Pursue Peace, Have Power ‘to Change the World’, Says Secretary General, in New York Remarks

Following are Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s remarks at the opening of a photo exhibition celebrating the fiftieth anniversary of the Peace Corps and the twentieth anniversary of the Korean International Cooperation Agency (KOICA), delivered by Kiyo Akasaka, Under-Secretary-General for Communications and Public Information, in New York, 18 October:

18 October 2011

SG/T/2816

Activities of Secretary-General in Switzerland, 16-18 October

United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, accompanied by Madam Ban Soon‑taek, visited Switzerland on an official visit, arriving in Bern on Sunday, 16 October.

18 October 2011

SG/SM/13886

Secretary-General Welcomes Prisoner Exchange Agreement Leading to Release of Israeli Staff Sergeant Gilad Shalit, Hundreds of Palestinian Prisoners

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

18 October 2011

SG/SM/13885-REC/242

Secretary-General Lauds Work of United Nations Economic Commission for Europe, Setting High Standards for Others; Notes Budget Challenges Ahead

This is the text of remarks by UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today to the Executive Committee of the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (ECE) in Geneva:

17 October 2011

SG/T/2815

Activities of Secretary-General in Washington, D.C., 13-14 October

United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon accepted the invitation of United States President Barack Obama to attend a dinner on 13 October in Washington, D.C., in honour of President Lee Myung-bak of the Republic of Korea.

17 October 2011

SG/T/2814

Activities of Secretary-General in Sweden, 12 October

United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon travelled on Wednesday morning, 12 October, from Copenhagen to Sweden. Upon arrival, he headed straight to Uppsala, where he visited the grave of his predecessor, Dag Hammarskjöld, marking 50 years since the then-Secretary-General died in an air crash in Ndola.