SG/SM/12823-AFR/1958
The following statement was issued today by the Spokesperson for UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon:
United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon arrived in Sirte, Libya, on Friday, 25 March 2010, to participate in the Summit meeting there of the League of Arab States. He was greeted at the airport by the country’s leader, Colonel Muammar al-Qadhafi, who welcomed his attendance at the Summit, which Colonel Qadhafi chaired.
United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon arrived in Tel Aviv in the early hours of 20 March from Moscow, with a stopover in Vienna, and then drove to Jerusalem.