SG/SM/13267-PI/1968
Following is UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s Message to the sixteenth Conference for International Telecommunications and Information Technologies, in Baku, Azerbaijan, today, 22 November:
United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, accompanied by Madam Ban Soon‑taek, arrived in Seoul early on the morning of Wednesday, 10 November, after a flight from New York. On arrival, the Secretary-General made brief remarks to waiting South Korean media in Korean, outlining the main purpose of his visit — to attend the Group of 20 (G-20) Summit and to ensure that the voices of the world’s most vulnerable people were heard.