Secretary-General: Press Release

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 for World Wildlife Day, observed on 3 March:

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

The following statement by the Middle East Quartet (United Nations, Russian Federation, United States, European Union) 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 today announced the appointment of Lieutenant General Balla Keïta of Senegal as the Force Commander of the United Nations Multidimensional Integrated Stabilization Mission in the Central African Republic (MINUSCA).

Following is Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s message, delivered by Gyan Chandra Acharya, High Representative for the Least Developed Countries, Landlocked Developing Countries and Small Island Developing States, to the General Assembly special event “Building Synergy and Coherence in the Implementation of the Istanbul Programme of Action in the Context of the 2030 Sustainable Development Agenda”, in New York today:

Following are UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s remarks as prepared for delivery at the seventieth anniversary commemoration of the establishment of the Advisory Committee on Administrative and Budgetary Questions (ACABQ) in New York today:

Following are UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s remarks at the informal interactive stakeholder consultation for the General Assembly Special Session on the world drug problem in New York today:

United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has appointed Tamar Hahn of Israel Director of the United Nations Information Centre (UNIC) in Buenos Aires, which serves Argentina and Uruguay.  She assumes her duties on 10 February.