Secretary-General

United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has appointed D. Stephen Mathias of the United States as Assistant Secretary-General for Legal Affairs.

Following are UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s remarks to a General Assembly high-level meeting on launching the Global Plan of Action against Trafficking in Persons, in New York, 31 August:

Following is UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s message to the sixty-third DPI/NGO Conference: “Advance Global Health: Achieve the MDGs”, in Melbourne, 30 August:

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

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

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

Following is UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s message for the International Day against Nuclear Tests, observed 29 August:

Following is UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon’s message to the High-Level Thematic Conference on the International Day against Nuclear Tests, delivered by Miroslav Jenča, Special Representative of the Secretary-General and Head of the United Nations Regional Centre for Preventive Diplomacy for Central Asia, in Astana, 26 August:

Following is UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s message to the twenty-third World Congress of the International Union of Forest Research Organizations, in Seoul, 23 August:

United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has appointed Jack Lang of France as Special Adviser on Legal Issues related to Piracy off the Coast of Somalia.