Secretary-General: Press Release

Following are UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s remarks at the third World Forum on Local Development, in Turin, Italy, today:

Following is UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s message, delivered by Petko Draganov, Head of the United Nations Regional Centre for Preventive Diplomacy for Central Asia, to the Xiangshan Forum, held in Beijing from 16 to 18 October:

Following is UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s message for World Food Day, 16 October:

Following is UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s message, delivered by Adama Dieng, Special Adviser to the Secretary-General on the Prevention of Genocide, to the 2015 Parliament of the World’s Religions, in Salt Lake City, United States, 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 for the Conference on Strengthening Global Food and Nutrition Security through Research and Innovation, in Milan today:

Following is UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s message, as delivered by Haile Menkerios, his Special Representative to the African Union and Head of the United Nations Office to the African Union, to the fifth High-Level Meeting of the Interregional Dialogue on Democracy, held in Addis Ababa on 15 and 16 October:

Following is UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s address to the Chamber of Senate and Deputies, in Rome 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 Laura Londén of Finland as Assistant Secretary-General and Deputy Executive Director (Management) of the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA), succeeding Anne-Birgitte Albrectsen, to whom the Secretary-General is grateful for her dedicated service and commitment to the Organization.