SECRETARY-GENERAL, IN MESSAGE TO MEETING ON CONVENTIONAL WEAPONS, CALLS

FOR LEGALLY BINDING TREATY PROHIBITING ‘HORRENDOUS’ CLUSTER MUNITIONS

STEP UP, SPEAK OUT, DO MORE ON INTERNATIONAL STAGE, SECRETARY-GENERAL URGES

WORLD’S LARGEST CONTINENT IN ADDRESS TO ASIA SOCIETY GALA DINNER

Following is the text of UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s address to the Asia Society annual gala dinner in New York yesterday, 6 November:

Biographical Note

SECRETARY-GENERAL DEEPLY SADDENED BY DEPLORABLE SUICIDE ATTACK TODAY IN NORTHERN

AFGHANISTAN, REPORTEDLY KILLING MORE THAN 40 CIVILIANS, WOUNDING EVEN MORE

 

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

LINKS BETWEEN UNITED NATIONS, REGIONAL ENTITIES OF GROWING IMPORTANCE

IN PEACEKEEPING OPERATIONS, SECRETARY-GENERAL TELLS SECURITY COUNCIL

SECRETARY-GENERAL, IN MESSAGE TO CONFERENCE ON CONVENTIONAL WEAPONS CONVENTION

PROTOCOL II, URGES RENEWED EFFORTS FOR ELIMINATION OF LANDMINES

United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon and his Under-Secretary-General for Political Affairs, B. Lynn Pascoe, travelled on Friday morning to Ankara, Turkey, where they met and had a working lunch with Turkish President Abdullah Gül.

SECRETARY-GENERAL, CONCERNED AT RECENT FIGHTING IN AFGHANISTAN, UNDERLINES CRUCIAL

ROLE OF NATO, AFGHAN SECURITY FORCES IN DETERRING TERRORIST, EXTREMIST GROUPS

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

SECRETARY-GENERAL EXPRESSES STRONG DISMAY AT DETENTION IN PAKISTAN OF HUMAN

RIGHTS, OPPOSITION ACTIVISTS, INCLUDING UN SPECIAL RAPPORTEUR

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

SECRETARY-GENERAL CALLS EXPLOSIVE REMNANTS OF WAR ‘HORRENDOUS AND SILENT HAZARDS’,

IN MESSAGE TO PROTOCOL V STATES PARTIES, CERTAIN CONVENTIONAL WEAPONS CONVENTION