Secretary-General

United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon is pleased to announce the appointment of Samir Aldarabi as Director of the United Nations Information Centre in Sana’a, Yemen. He will assume his new duties on 6 December.

Following is UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s message for the International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People, observed on 29 November:

Following is the text of UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s video message to the 2010 World Forum on Hansen’s Disease (leprosy), held in Seoul, Republic of Korea, 24-26 November:

Following is UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s message on the International Day of Persons with Disabilities, to be observed on 3 December:

Following is UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s message for World Aids Day, to be observed on 1 December:

Following is the text of UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s message, as delivered by Sergei Ordzhonikidze, Director-General of the United Nations Office at Geneva and Secretary-General of the Conference on Disarmament, to the Twelfth Annual Conference of the High Contracting Parties to Amended Protocol II to the Convention on Certain Conventional weapons, today, 24 November, in Geneva:

Following are UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s remarks to the 2010 Young Atlanticist Summit, in Lisbon, 20 November:

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 commemoration of the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women, in New York, today, 23 November:

Following is UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s address to the John C. Whitehead School of Diplomacy and International Relations at Seton Hall University, South Orange, New Jersey, today, 22 November: