Secretary-General: Press Release

Following are UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s remarks, as prepared for delivery, at the “Ethics in Action:  The UN’s 17 Sustainable Development Goals” event, in New York today:

Following are UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s remarks at the memorial in honour of Ambassador Joseph Verner Reed, in New York today:

Following is the text of UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s video message for “Giving Tuesday”, in New York today:

Following are UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s remarks, as prepared for delivery, at the Summit on Science and Technology Enablement for the Sustainable Development Goals, in New York today:

Following is the text of UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s video message for the UN Cares Awards, in New York, today:

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

Following is UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s message for World AIDS Day, observed on 1 December:

United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon announced today the appointment of Olufemi Elias of Nigeria as Registrar of the International Residual Mechanism for Criminal Tribunals, with effect from 1 January 2017. 

Following is UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s message, delivered by Antonio Prado, Deputy Executive Secretary of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean, to the Convention on the Prohibition of the Use, Stockpiling, Production and Transfer of Anti-Personnel Mines and on Their Destruction, in Santiago today:

Following is the text of UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s video message to the Budapest Water Summit, in Budapest today: