United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon arrived in Prague on Thursday evening, 14 April, at the start of a four-country visit to Eastern and Central Europe. On Friday morning, he met President Václav Klaus, whom he briefed on recent developments in the Middle East and North Africa, particularly Libya and Egypt.
United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon arrived in Cairo from Doha in the evening of Wednesday, 13 April. The following day, he and the Secretary-General of the League of Arab States, Amre Moussa, co-chaired a conference of international and regional organizations to discuss coordination on Libya.
United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon flew overnight from New York to Doha to take part in the first meeting of the International Contact Group on Libya, on Wednesday, 13 April. He told the officials gathered at the meeting that the international community had acted swiftly and decisively in the past seven weeks. But he said that even the most optimistic observers foresee a protracted period of instability before sustainable peace can be restored.
