Secretary-General: Press Release

Following are UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s remarks at a symposium on the seventieth anniversary of the United Nations, held at the United Nations University in Tokyo today:

Following are UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s remarks, as prepared for delivery, at the Japanese Global Compact Local Network, in Tokyo today:

On 29 December 2014, the General Assembly, in its resolution 69/246, requested the Secretary-General to appoint an independent panel of experts to examine and assess the probative value of new information related to the tragic death, in September 1961, of Dag Hammarskjöld and the members of the party accompanying him.

Following are UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s remarks at the opening of the third United Nations World Conference on Disaster Risk Reduction, in Sendai, Japan today:

Following are UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s remarks at the United Nations high-level event on “Uniting Nations, People and Action for Resilience”, in Sendai, Japan, today:

Following is UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s message, as delivered by Li Yong, Director General of the United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO), to the Egypt Economic Development Conference, held in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt, from 13 to 15 March:

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

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

Following is UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s message on World Tuberculosis Day, to be observed on 24 March:

United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today announced the appointment of Miroslav Jenča of Slovakia as Assistant Secretary-General for Political Affairs.