SECRETARY-GENERAL HIGHLIGHTS SIGNIFICANT ADVANCES IN IMPLEMENTING

CHEMICAL WEAPONS CONVENTION, AS signatories MEET IN the hague

 

MIDDLE EAST PEACE CAN, AND MUST, BE PROMOTED NOT ONLY AT POLITICAL LEVEL,

BUT AT GRASS ROOTS, SAYS SECRETARY-GENERAL IN MESSAGE TO VIENNA SEMINAR

 

‘URGENT CHALLENGE’ FOR ASIA -– TO FOSTER ECONOMIC GROWTH, WHILE MINIMIZING IMPACT

ON CLIMATE CHANGE, SAYS SECRETARY-GENERAL, IN MESSAGE TO HONG KONG MEETING

 

Following is the text of UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s video message to the Clinton Global Initiative in Hong Kong, 2 December:

SECRETARY-GENERAL SPEAKS WITH INDIA’S PRIME MINISTER ON MUMBAI ATTACKS;

COMMENDS COURAGE, RESILIENCE SHOWN BY GOVERNMENT, PEOPLE

 

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

SECRETARY-GENERAL DEEPLY SADDENED BY INTER-COMMUNAL VIOLENCE IN NIGERIA,

ENCOURAGED BY EFFORTS TO RESTORE NORMALCY

 

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

AS FINANCIAL CRISIS OF ENORMOUS PROPORTIONS UNFOLDS, SECRETARY-GENERAL URGES FOCUS

ON POLICY OPTIONS TO HELP HEAVILY INDEBTED POOR COUNTRIES, AT DOHA SIDE EVENT

(Delayed in transmission.)

IN MESSAGE FOR INTERNATIONAL VOLUNTEER DAY, SECRETARY-GENERAL SAYS VOLUNTEERS’

ALTRUISM IMMENSE; URGES ALL IN GLOBAL COMMUNITY TO TAP ITS GREAT RESERVE

Following is UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s message for International Volunteer Day, observed 5 December:

‘WE ARE NOT POWERLESS IN FACE OF DISEASE’, SAYS SECRETARY-GENERAL IN VIDEO MESSAGE

TO SADDLEBACK CIVIL FORUM ON GLOBAL HEALTH, IN WASHINGTON, D.C.

 

SECRETARY-GENERAL HIGHLIGHTS CRUCIAL WORK DONE TO STRENGTHEN BARRIERS AGAINST

BIOLOGICAL WEAPONS, BIOTERRORISM, IN MESSAGE TO GENEVA MEETING

 

SECRETARY-GENERAL, ON WORLD AIDS DAY, PLEDGES TO DO UTMOST TO REACH GLOBAL TARGETS;

APPOINTS MICHEL SIDIBÉ OF MALI EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR OF UNAIDS

Following is the text of Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s remarks on World AIDS Day, in Doha, today, 1 December: