IMAGES CAN SPUR EFFORTS TO SAFEGUARD FRAGILE PLANET, SAYS SECRETARY-GENERAL

AT OPENING OF EXHIBIT FEATURING WORK BY UNITED NATIONS PHOTOGRAPHERS

SECRETARY-GENERAL CLARIFIES SELECTION PROCESS REGARDING

 

UNITED NATIONS HIGH COMMISSIONER FOR HUMAN RIGHTS

 

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

SECRETARY-GENERAL TO CIVIL SOCIETY HEARINGS FOR HIGH-LEVEL AIDS MEETING:  ‘WE MUST

KEEP OUR FOOT ON THE ACCELERATOR, NAVIGATE THE LONGER ROAD MAP AT THE SAME TIME’

SECRETARY-GENERAL WELCOMES AGREEMENT REACHED YESTERDAY BETWEEN PARTIES IN SOMALIA

AS IMPORTANT STEP TOWARDS DURABLE POLITICAL SETTLEMENT

 

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

SECRETARY-GENERAL TO GENERAL ASSEMBLY CITES SOME ENCOURAGING TRENDS IN COMBATING

HIV/AIDS, YET UNACCEPTABLE RATE OF NEW INFECTIONS; CALLS ON ALL TO BRIDGE GAPS

SECRETARY-GENERAL SAYS AIDS overwhelmingly KILLS PEOPLE IN MOST PRODUCTIVE YEARS,

SO BUSINESS should SUPPORT UNIVERSAL ACCESS TO HIV PREVENTION, TREATMENT, CARE

United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon flew to Jackson, Wyoming, in the afternoon of Friday, 6 June, to open the first ever Global Insight Summit.  The Summit was convened by the United Nations and the Jackson Hole Film Institute and held during the fifth annual Jackson Hole Film Festival.

United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon flew from Bangkok, Thailand, to the epicentre of the earthquake in China on Saturday morning, 24 May, to express his condolences and solidarity to the Chinese people and Government and to witness for himself the rescue efforts, following the 12 May earthquake that took at least 60,000 lives in China’s Sichuan Province.

United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon arrived in Bangkok in the afternoon of Wednesday, 21 May, en route to Myanmar to see for himself the areas and people affected by Cyclone Nargis.  From Bangkok, he would also travel to the epicentre of the earthquake in the Chinese province of Sichuan.

SECRETARY-GENERAL, IN REMARKS TO HIV-TB GLOBAL LEADERS’ FORUM, APPEALS

FOR EFFECTIVE JOINT TREATMENT, MORE INVESTMENT IN TUBERCULOSIS CONTROL

Following is the text of UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s remarks to the HIV-TB Global Leaders’ Forum in New York today, 9 June: