ON SIXTIETH ANNIVERSARY OF CONVENTION, SECRETARY-GENERAL SAYS GENOCIDE NOT CONSIGNED

TO HISTORY; VIGILANCE, WILLINGNESS TO ACT AS IMPORTANT TODAY AS EVER

SECRETARY-GENERAL WELCOMES DECLARATION OF SUMMIT ON BURUNDI PEACE PROCESS, CALLS

ON PARTIES TO IMPLEMENT AGREEMENTS WITH ‘URGENCY AND DETERMINATION’

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

SECRETARY-GENERAL APPLAUDS SIGNATORY COUNTRIES TO CLUSTER MUNITIONS CONVENTION,

LOOKS FORWARD TO EARLY ENTRY INTO FORCE, AS OSLO CONFERENCE CONCLUDES

 

SECRETARY-GENERAL, IN MESSAGE, URGES STEPS AGAINST GLOBAL MENACE OF CORRUPTION;

ISSUE ‘AFFECTS US ALL’ BY WEAKENING DEMOCRACY, UNDERMINING RULE OF LAW

Following is Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s message on International Anti-Corruption Day, observed 9 December:

UN, ORGANIZATION FOR SECURITY AND COOPERATION IN EUROPE ‘GOOD, STRONG PARTNERS’,

 

SAYS SECRETARY-GENERAL IN MESSAGE TO HELSINKI MEETING

 

SECRETARY-GENERAL, AT HEADQUARTERS CONFERENCE, APPEALS FOR GENEROUS CONTRIBUTIONS

TO EMERGENCY RESPONSE FUND, SAYING ‘THERE ARE MILLIONS OF LIVES AT STAKE’

SECRETARY-GENERAL URGES PARTIES TO BURUNDI CEASEFIRE AGREEMENT TO SUMMON ‘POLITICAL

WILL AND COURAGE’ TO OVERCOME OUTSTANDING ISSUES, IN MESSAGE TO REGIONAL SUMMIT

SECRETARY-GENERAL COMMENDS COURAGEOUS ‘ROOTS OF PEACE’ ORGANIZATION FOR LEADERSHIP

IN EFFORTS ‘TO REPLACE THE DETRITUS OF WAR WITH THE FRUITS OF PEACE’

Following is UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s message for the Roots of Peace “Harvest of Hope” gala in Washington, D.C., 3 December:

SIGNING OF CLUSTER MUNITIONS CONVENTION MARKS MAJOR STEP FORWARD IN GLOBAL EFFORTS

TO CONTROL NOXIOUS SPREAD OF DEADLY, INHUMANE WEAPONS, SAYS SECRETARY-GENERAL

SECRETARY-GENERAL, ON INTERNATIONAL DAY, SAYS UN REMAINS COMMITTED TO PROMOTING

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