UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon announced today the appointment of Major General Luiz Guilherme Paul Cruz of Brazil as Force Commander of the United Nations Stabilization Mission in Haiti (MINUSTAH).
Following is UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s message to the Intergovernmental Authority on Development (IGAD), delivered by Haile Menkerios, Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Sudan, in Nairobi on 9 March:
Following is the text of UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s remarks, in New York, on 9 March, at the memorial ceremony in honour of those killed in the Haiti earthquake:
United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has announced the appointment of Martin Kobler of Germany as his Deputy Special Representative (Political) for Afghanistan, replacing Peter Galbraith of the United States.
Following are UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s remarks to the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR)/Equality Now event in celebration of the fifteen-year review of the Beijing Declaration, delivered by Rachel Mayanja, the Secretary-General’s Special Adviser on Gender Issues and Advancement of Women, in New York, today, 5 March:
The following statement by UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on the fortieth anniversary of the entry into force of the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons was issued today: