SECRETARY-GENERAL WELCOMES FORMATION OF NEW GOVERNMENT IN ISRAEL

 

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

SECRETARY-GENERAL APPALLED BY SUICIDE ATTACKS IN KANDAHAR,

 

SAYS ‘MORALLY REPUGNANT’ ACT SETBACK TO PEACE EFFORTS

 

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

SECRETARY-GENERAL WELCOMES UNITED STATES INTENTION TO SEEK HUMAN RIGHTS COUNCIL SEAT;

SAYS CONCRETE EMBODIMENT OF COUNTRY’S COMMITMENT TO ‘NEW ERA OF ENGAGEMENT’

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

AVOID FOCUS ON PAST SETBACKS IN AFGHANISTAN, SEIZE OPPORTUNITIES FOR PROGRESS,

HELP AFGHANS SECURE NEW VISION FOR FUTURE, SAYS SECRETARY-GENERAL

Following is the text of UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s address to the International Conference on Afghanistan, in The Hague on 31 March:

Biographical Note

SECRETARY-GENERAL APPOINTS HELEN CLARK OF NEW ZEALAND AS NEW ADMINISTRATOR

of United Nations Development Programme

 

United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon arrived in Doha, Qatar, from Moscow, Russian Federation, on the evening of Saturday, 28 March.  He was greeted by Madam Ban Soon-taek, who had arrived before him, directly from New York.

United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon arrived in Moscow in the Russian Federation during the afternoon of Thursday, 26 March.

ARAB SUMMIT MEETS AT TIME OF ‘PALPABLE UNCERTAINTY’, SAYS SECRETARY-GENERAL,

NOTING ARAB WORLD FACES INSECURITY TODAY, POTENTIAL FOR MORE TOMORROW

Following are UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s remarks to the Summit of the League of Arab States, in Doha, Qatar, 30 March:

SECRETARY-GENERAL URGES FULL FUNDING TO FIGHT AIDS, TUBERCULOSES, MALARIA;

SAYS SUCH SPENDING ‘TRUE RECOVERY PACKAGE’ IN TIME OF ECONOMIC CRISES

MEN AND BOYS MUST PLAY THEIR PART IN FIGHT FOR WOMEN’S EQUALITY IN HOMES, SCHOOLS,

WORKPLACES, HALLS OF POWER, SAYS SECRETARY-GENERAL IN VIDEO MESSAGE