United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon announced today the appointment of Lenni Montiel of Venezuela as Assistant Secretary-General for Economic Development in the Department of Economic and Social Affairs. He succeeds Shamshad Akhtar of Pakistan. The Secretary-General and the Under-Secretary-General for Economic and Social Affairs are grateful for her commitment and dedicated service to the Organization.
Following is UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s message, as delivered by Hiroute Guebre Sellassie, Special Envoy of the Secretary-General for the Sahel, to the third meeting of the ministerial coordination platform for the Sahel, held in Bamako today:
United Nations Secretary‑General Ban Ki‑moon, accompanied by Madam Ban Soon‑taek, arrived in Nay Pyi Taw, the capital of Myanmar, from New York, via Incheon, late in the evening of 11 November, to attend the twenty-fifth annual Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) Summit.
The following statement was issued today by the Spokesman for UN Secretary‑General Ban Ki‑moon:
Following is UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s message, as delivered by Michael Møller, Acting Director-General of the United Nations Office at Geneva, to the Second Session of the Open-ended Intergovernmental Preparatory Committee of the Third United Nations World Conference on Disaster Risk Reduction, in Geneva, 17 November:
The following statement was issued today by the Spokesman for UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon:
Following is UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s message for Africa Industrialization Day, to be observed on 20 November:
The following statement was issued today by the Spokesman for UN Secretary‑General Ban Ki‑moon:
Following is UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s message on World Toilet Day, to be observed on 19 November:
The following statement was issued today by the Spokesman for UN Secretary‑General Ban Ki‑moon:
