Secretary-General: Press Release

Following is UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s message on the International Day of United Nations Peacekeepers, “Honouring Our Heroes”, observed on 29 May:

Following is UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s message on the Day of Vesak, to be observed on 20 May:

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 on the International Day to End Obstetric Fistula, observed on 23 May:

Following is UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s message, delivered by Rachel Kyte, Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Sustainable Energy for All, to the seventeenth William G. Demas Memorial Lecture, in Montego Bay, Jamaica, today:

Following is UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s message, delivered by Taye-Brook Zerihoun, Assistant Secretary-General for Political Affairs, to the thirteenth General Meeting of Cooperation between the United Nations and the League of Arab States, in Geneva today:

Following is UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s message, delivered by Shamshad Akhtar, Executive Secretary of the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP), at its seventy-second session, in Bangkok today:

Following is UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s message, delivered by Mohamed Ibn Chambas, Special Representative of the Secretary-General and Head of the United Nations Office for West Africa and the Sahel, to the second Regional Security Summit, in Abuja today:

The Secretary-General of the United Nations, Ban Ki-moon, and the Chairperson of the African Union Commission, Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma, welcome the peaceful conduct of the partial re-run for the elections of President of Comoros and Governor of the Autonomous Island of Anjouan.

United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon announced today the appointment of Lieutenant General Johnson Mogoa Kimani Ondieki of Kenya as Force Commander of the United Nations Mission in South Sudan (UNMISS).