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Following is UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s message for World Oceans Day, to be observed on 8 June:
United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, accompanied by Madam Ban Soon-taek, arrived in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, on the morning of Thursday, 27 May, after flying overnight from New York to attend the Alliance of Civilizations Forum, which was starting on Friday.