SECRETARY-GENERAL APPOINTS THREE NEW SPECIAL ENVOYS ON CLIMATE CHANGE

United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today announced the appointment of three Special Envoys on Climate Change.

AT OPENING OF EXHIBIT ON RWANDA TRAGEDY, SECRETARY-GENERAL CALLS

FOR BUILDING GLOBAL PARTNERSHIP AGAINST GENOCIDE

 

Following is the text of remarks today by UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon at the opening of the exhibition “Lessons from the Rwanda Genocide”, in New York:

ATTACKS ON PRESS FREEDOM ARE ATTACKS ‘AGAINST EVERYTHING UNITED NATIONS

STANDS FOR’, SAYS SECRETARY-GENERAL IN MESSAGE FOR WORLD DAY

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

Security council sanctions most effective as part of holistic conflict

 

resolution approach, secretary-general says at new york symposium

SECRETARY-GENERAL URGES VIENNA MEETING TO ADDRESS ‘PERSISTING CRISIS OF CONFIDENCE’

IN NUCLEAR NON-PROLIFERATION TREATY

parliaments will help define national, global engagement on climate change,

says secretary-general, in message to Inter-Parliamentary Union bali meeting

SECRETARY-GENERAL CALLS FOR DESTRUCTION OF CHEMICAL WEAPONS STOCKPILES IN MESSAGE

 

MARKING TENTH ANNIVERSARY OF CONVENTION’S ENTRY INTO FORCE

 

SECRETARY-GENERAL REGRETS VIOLENCE, LOSS OF LIFE IN ESTONIA

 

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

United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, accompanied by Madam Ban Soon-taek, arrived by air in Damascus from Doha on Tuesday morning, 24 April, for an official visit.

United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, accompanied by Madam Ban Soon-taek, arrived in Doha from Geneva late on Sunday afternoon, 22 April, to open the Seventh Forum on Democracy, Development and Free Trade.