Secretary-General

Following is UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s message, delivered by Oscar-Fernandez Taranco, Assistant Secretary-General for Political Affairs, to the Sixth General Meeting between the United Nations System and the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) and its Associated Institutions, in Georgetown, Guyana, today, 28 July:

Following are Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s remarks at the General Assembly plenary meeting on the human right to water and sanitation, today, 27 July, in New York:

Following are Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s remarks at the unveiling of the London Olympic Countdown Clock, in New York, 27 July:

Following are UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s remarks at the High-level Meeting on Youth side event, “Giving it Back, Passing it On: Corporate Engagement and Youth Philanthropy as Pathways to Development”, in New York, today, 27 July:

Following are UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s remarks to the General Assembly meeting on the follow-up to the 2010 High-Level Meeting on the Conference on Disarmament and Multilateral Disarmament Negotiations, in New York, 27 July:

United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has appointed Lieutenant General Tadesse Werede Tesfay (Ethiopia) as Head of Mission and Force Commander of the United Nations Interim Security Force for Abyei (UNISFA). Lieutenant General Tesfay will be responsible for discharging the mandate of UNISFA, as contained in Security Council resolution 1990 of 27 June 2011.

United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has appointed Major General Abdul Hafiz of Bangladesh as the Force Commander of the United Nations Mission for the Referendum in Western Sahara (MINURSO).

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

Following are UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s remarks at the dinner in honour of Alain Le Roy, Under-secretary-General for Peacekeeping Operations, hosted by Gérard Araud, Permanent Representative of France to the United Nations, in New York, 25 July:

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