Secretary-General: Press Release

Following are UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon’s remarks at the Geneva Conference on Preventing Violent Extremism, today:

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

Following is the text of UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s video message to the Columbia University School of International Public Affairs’ (SIPA) Global Leadership Awards, in New York today:

United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, accompanied by Madam Ban Soon-taek, flew on Wednesday, 30 March, from Geneva, Switzerland, to Stockholm, Sweden, to deliver the Dag Hammarskjöld Lecture.

United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, accompanied by Madam Ban Soon-taek, flew on Tuesday, 29 March, from Tunis, Tunisia, to Geneva, Switzerland, to participate in the high-level meeting on Global Responsibility Sharing for Syrian Refugees.

United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, accompanied by Madam Ban Soon-taek, flew on Saturday, 28 March, from Amman, Jordan, to Tunis, Tunisia, for a joint visit with Jim Yong Kim, President of the World Bank Group.

United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, accompanied by Madam Ban Soon-taek, flew on Saturday, 26 March, from Erbil, Iraq, to Amman, Jordan, for a joint visit with Jim Yong Kim, President of the World Bank Group.

United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon flew on Saturday, 26 March, from Beirut, Lebanon, to Baghdad, Iraq, for a joint visit with Jim Yong Kim, President of the World Bank Group, and Mohamed Ali Al-Madani, President of the Islamic Development Bank.

United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, accompanied by Madam Ban Soon-taek, flew on Wednesday, 23 March, from New York to Beirut, Lebanon, the first leg of a joint visit to the Middle East and North Africa region with Jim Yong Kim, President of the World Bank Group, and Mohamed Ali Al-Madani, President of the Islamic Development Bank.

Following is the text of UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s video message congratulating the United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO) on its fiftieth anniversary: