Secretary-General: Press Release

On Thursday evening, 26 May, United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, with Madam Ban Soon-taek, arrived in Nagoya, Japan, from Jeju Island in the Republic of Korea.

United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon arrived on Jeju Island on Wednesday afternoon, 25 May, coming directly from Istanbul, where he had attended the first World Humanitarian Summit.

Following is UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s message on the 100-day countdown to the International Day of Peace, observed on 21 September:

Following are UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s remarks to the Security Council open debate on the protection of civilians in armed conflict, in New York today:

Following are UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s remarks to the Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) Gala, in New York today:

Following are UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s remarks to the General Assembly on United Nations peace operations, the peacebuilding architecture and the implementation of Security Council resolution 1325 (2000), in New York today:

Following is UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s message on the International Day for the Elimination of Sexual Violence in Conflict, observed on 19 June:

Following is the text of UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s video message for the World of Work Summit “Decent Jobs for Youth”, in Geneva today:

Following is UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s message, delivered by Abdoulaye Bathily, Special Representative for Central Africa and Head of the United Nations Regional Office for Central Africa (UNOCA), to the forty-second ministerial meeting of the United Nations Standing Advisory Committee on Security Questions in Central Africa (UNSAC), in Bangui today:

Following are UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s remarks as prepared for delivery to the United Nations Correspondents Association (UNCA) Directory Reception, in New York today: