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.
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Secretary-General: Press Release
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:
Following is the text of UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s video message to the International Peace and Security Institute Symposium on Countering Violent Extremism, in Washington, D.C., today:
Following are UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s remarks, as prepared for delivery, upon receiving an honorary doctorate of humane letters from Loyola Marymount University, in Los Angeles, California, today:
Following is UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s message for World Health Day, observed on 7 April:
Following is UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s message on the International Day of Reflection on the Genocide in Rwanda, observed on 7 April:
United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, accompanied by Madam Ban Soon-taek, arrived in Baden-Baden, from Algiers, in the afternoon of Monday, 7 March.
United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon arrived in Tindouf from Nouakchott on Saturday morning, 5 March.
United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon arrived in Nouakchott from Ouagadougou on Thursday evening, 3 March. He was welcomed by Isselkou Ould Ahmed Izid Bih, Minister for Foreign Affairs.
United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon arrived in Ouagadougou from Madrid on Wednesday afternoon, 2 March.