Middle east negotiations must be backed up with ‘real change on the ground’,

Says Secretary-General to London meeting

 

Following is the text of UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s opening remarks to the meeting of the Ad Hoc Liaison Committee in London on 2 May:

Biographical Note

STATEMENT BY MIDDLE EAST QUARTET

 

Following is the text of the statement issued today in London by the Quartet ( United Nations, Russian Federation, United States and European Union):

United Nations Secretary-General and Madam Ban Soon-taek arrived in Vienna, Austria, in the morning of Friday, 25 April, from Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire.

United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon and Madam Ban Soon-taek arrived in Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire from Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso, in the afternoon of Wednesday, 23 April.

United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, accompanied by his wife, Ban Soon-taek, flew from Monrovia, Liberia, to Ouagadougou in Burkina Faso in the afternoon of Tuesday, 22 April.

United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon and Madam Ban Soon-taek travelled from Accra, Ghana, to Monrovia, Liberia in the afternoon of Monday, 21 April.

United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, accompanied by his wife, Ban Soon-taek, arrived in Accra, Ghana, late in the evening of Saturday, 19 April, at the beginning of a visit to West Africa that would also take him to Liberia, Burkina Faso and Côte d’Ivoire.

SECRETARY-GENERAL’S STATEMENT ON non-PERMANENT SECURITY COUNCIL SEATS

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

IN MESSAGE FOR WORLD PRESS FREEDOM DAY, SECRETARY-GENERAL CALLS ON ALL SOCIETIES

 

TO ‘SPARE NO EFFORT’ TO BRING TO JUSTICE PERPETRATORS OF ATTACKS ON JOURNALISTS

 

Following is UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s message for World Press Freedom Day, on 3 May: