UN, ORGANIZATION FOR SECURITY AND COOPERATION IN EUROPE ‘GOOD, STRONG PARTNERS’,

 

SAYS SECRETARY-GENERAL IN MESSAGE TO HELSINKI MEETING

 

SECRETARY-GENERAL, AT HEADQUARTERS CONFERENCE, APPEALS FOR GENEROUS CONTRIBUTIONS

TO EMERGENCY RESPONSE FUND, SAYING ‘THERE ARE MILLIONS OF LIVES AT STAKE’

SECRETARY-GENERAL URGES PARTIES TO BURUNDI CEASEFIRE AGREEMENT TO SUMMON ‘POLITICAL

WILL AND COURAGE’ TO OVERCOME OUTSTANDING ISSUES, IN MESSAGE TO REGIONAL SUMMIT

SECRETARY-GENERAL COMMENDS COURAGEOUS ‘ROOTS OF PEACE’ ORGANIZATION FOR LEADERSHIP

IN EFFORTS ‘TO REPLACE THE DETRITUS OF WAR WITH THE FRUITS OF PEACE’

Following is UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s message for the Roots of Peace “Harvest of Hope” gala in Washington, D.C., 3 December:

SIGNING OF CLUSTER MUNITIONS CONVENTION MARKS MAJOR STEP FORWARD IN GLOBAL EFFORTS

TO CONTROL NOXIOUS SPREAD OF DEADLY, INHUMANE WEAPONS, SAYS SECRETARY-GENERAL

SECRETARY-GENERAL, ON INTERNATIONAL DAY, SAYS UN REMAINS COMMITTED TO PROMOTING

ACCESSIBILITY -- DIGITAL, POLITICAL, PHYSICAL -- FOR PERSONS WITH DISABILITIES

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: