Secretary-General: Press Release

Following is UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s message on World Diabetes Day, observed on 14 November:

Following are UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s remarks, as prepared for delivery, at the eleventh meeting of Heads of United Nations Police Components, in New York today:

United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon left New York on Sunday, 6 November, for Switzerland, where he arrived on Monday morning.

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

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

United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon announced today the appointment of Maria do Valle Ribeiro of Ireland as his new Deputy Special Representative and Deputy Head of the United Nations Support Mission in Libya (UNSMIL), where she will also serve as United Nations Resident Coordinator, Humanitarian Coordinator and Resident Representative of the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP).

Following is the text of UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s video message to the opening of the Review Conference of the Biological Weapons Convention, in Geneva today:

United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today announced the appointment of Mourad Wahba of Egypt as Assistant Administrator and Director of the Regional Bureau for Arab States at the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP).

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

Following are UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s opening remarks at the meeting with civil society organizations to commemorate the entry into force of the Paris Agreement on climate change, in New York today: