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Following is UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s message to the twenty-sixth Ministerial Session of the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia (ESCWA), delivered by Bader Omar al Dafa, ESCWA Executive Secretary, in Beirut today, 19 May:

Following is UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s message for the official presentation of the Heidelberg Darfur Dialogue Outcome Document, delivered by Djibril Yipènè Bassolé, Joint African Union-United Nations Chief Mediator for Darfur, in Berlin, today, 19 May:

Following is UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s message, delivered by Laura Vaccari, Chief of the Decolonization Unit, Department of Political Affairs, to the Pacific Regional Seminar on Implementation of the Second Decade for the Eradication of Colonialism, in Nouméa, New Caledonia, 18-20 May:

Following is UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s message for the International Peace Institute (IPI) Seminar on Peacemaking and Peacekeeping, delivered today by Alain Le Roy, Under-Secretary-General for Peacekeeping Operations, in Vienna:

Following is the text of UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s video message to the sixty-sixth session of the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific, in Incheon, today, 17 May:

United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has appointed Christiana Figueres of Costa Rica as Executive Secretary of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, to succeed Yvo de Boer. The appointment has been made after consultations with the Conference of Parties through its Bureau. The Secretary-General is grateful to Mr. de Boer for his dedicated service and tireless efforts on behalf of the climate change agenda.

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

Following are UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s remarks to the concluding session of the 18th session of the Commission on Sustainable Development, in New York, 14 May:

Following are UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s remarks to the General Assembly informal meeting on piracy, in New York today, 14 May:

Following is UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s message for the Day of Vesak, to be observed on 28 May: