Secretary-General: Press Release

Following is UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s message, as delivered by Carlos Lopes, Executive Secretary of the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa, in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, 29 April:

Following is UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s message, as delivered by Kassym-Jomart Tokayev, Director-General of the United Nations Office at Geneva, to the Ministerial Conference of the Community of Democracies, in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia, 29 April:

United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today announced the appointment of Modibo Touré of Mali as Special Adviser, at the level of Assistant Secretary-General, to the Special Envoy of the Secretary-General to the Great Lakes Region.

United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today announced the appointment of Nicholas Kay ( United Kingdom) as his Special Representative for Somalia.

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

Following is UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s message for the Day of Remembrance for All Victims of Chemical Warfare, 29 April 2013:

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

Following is UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s message, as delivered by Ján Kubiš, Special Representative for Afghanistan, to the third Ministerial Conference of the Istanbul Process, in Almaty, Kazakhstan, 26 April:

Following are UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s remarks, as prepared for delivery, at a reception and concert for the children of Syria, in New York, 25 April:

Following are UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s remarks at the re-opening of the renovated Trusteeship Council Chamber, in New York on 25 April: