SG/SM/13480-GA/11062
Following is the text of UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s remarks introducing the President of Italy at the General Assembly today, 28 March:
United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon arrived in Tunis on Monday evening, 21 March, after completing a visit to Egypt. He had said at the outset that he was visiting both countries to support their recent efforts at forging a democratic transition, by listening to the peoples and Government of each country to determine what kind of assistance they wanted.
United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon arrived in Cairo, Egypt, on Sunday, 20 March, after having departed an international conference on Libya that had taken place in Paris the previous day. He immediately went to the Foreign Ministry to meet the country’s new Foreign Minister, Nabil Abdalla El-Araby.