Secretary-General: Press Release

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

On Thursday, 26 February, United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, accompanied by Madam Ban Soon-taek, flew from Asunción, Paraguay, to Santiago de Chile, to attend a high-level event on “Women in Power and Decision-Making”, organized by the Government of Chile in cooperation with the United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women (UN-Women).

On Tuesday, 24 February, United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, accompanied by Madam Ban Soon-taek, flew from New York to Asunción, Paraguay, for an official visit to the country.

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

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

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

Following are Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s remarks, as prepared for delivery, at a meeting on the 2015 World Education Forum, in New York today:

Following is the text of UN Secretary- General Ban Ki-moon’s video message to the Human Rights Council meeting on climate change, in Geneva today:

Following is UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s message, as delivered by Michal Broza, Officer-in-Charge, United Nations Information Centre in Prague, for the opening ceremony of the Final Conference of the twentieth Prague Student Summit, in Prague today:

United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon announced today the appointment of Major General Michael Lollesgaard of Denmark as the Force Commander of the United Nations Multidimensional Integrated Stabilization Mission in Mali (MINUSMA).