Secretary-General: Press Release

Following is UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s statement in New York today following the news of Osama bin Laden’s death:

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

The following statement was issued on 28 April by the Spokesperson for UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon:

United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today announced the appointment of Geeta Rao Gupta, a United States national born in India, as Deputy Executive Director of the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF). Ms. Rao Gupta will succeed Saad Houry. The Secretary-General would like to take this opportunity to thank Mr. Houry for his exceptional service and commitment to UNICEF.

Following is UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s message, delivered by Margaret Chan, Director-General of the World Health Organization (WHO), to the First Global Ministerial Meeting on Healthy Lifestyles and Non-Communicable Disease Control, in Moscow on 28-29 April:

Following is UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s message to the United Nations Seminar on Assistance to the Palestinian People, as delivered by Rima Khalaf, Executive Secretary, United Nations Economic and Social Commission for West Asia, in Helsinki, Finland, 28 April:

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

Following is a joint message by UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay and UN Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization Director-General Irina Bokova on the occasion of World Press Freedom Day, to be observed on 3 May:

Following are UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s message to the twentieth International Conference on Health and Environment: Global Partners for Global Solutions, delivered by Deputy Secretary-General Asha-Rose Migiro, in New York, 26 April:

Following are Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s remarks to the General Assembly’s special commemorative meeting in observance of the twenty-fifth anniversary of the Chernobyl disaster, in New York, 26 April: