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Secretary-General: Press Release


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United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, accompanied by Madam Ban Soon-taek, arrived in Honiara from Canberra on Saturday evening, 3 September. En route, his aircraft made a low pass over Gizo and Marovo Lagoon, in the Solomon Islands, so that the Secretary-General could see the effects of deforestation and climate change.

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United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, accompanied by Madam Ban Soon-taek, arrived in Paris from New York early on Thursday afternoon, 1 September. He was to attend the “International Conference in Support of the New Libya” along with other world leaders.

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Following is UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s message, delivered by Kassym-Jomart Tokayev, Director-General of the United Nations Office at Geneva, for the International Day of Democracy and the opening of “The Doers of Democracy”, a photo exhibition featuring projects of the United Nations Democracy Fund, in Geneva on 15 September: