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The following statement was issued today by the Spokesperson for UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon:
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SG/A/1256-BIO/4217
United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon welcomes today’s action by the General Assembly to quickly approve Carman Lapointe-Young of Canada as Under-Secretary-General for the Office of Internal Oversight Services (OIOS).
SG/SM/13026-DC/3252
Following is UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s message to the Hiroshima Conference for the Total Abolition of Nuclear Weapons by 2020, to be held in Hiroshima, 27-29 July:
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Following is UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s address to the African Union Summit, as delivered by Deputy Secretary-General Asha-Rose Migiro, in Kampala, on 25 July:
SG/T/2745
On Monday, 19 July, UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon left Geneva to travel to Afghanistan, to co-chair the International Conference on Afghanistan with President Hamid Karzai, which would take place the following day. As the Secretary-General noted, the Tuesday meeting was the first international conference on Afghanistan to be held in the country, organized by the Afghan Government for the Afghan people.
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Following is UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s message, as delivered by Kiyo Akasaka, Under Secretary-General for Communications and Public Information, to the International Media Seminar on Peace in the Middle East, held in Lisbon, Portugal, on 22 July:
SG/SM/13023-ICJ/623
The following statement was issued today by the Spokesperson for UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon:
SG/T/2744
The Secretary-General arrived in Geneva on Sunday, 18 July. That afternoon, he visited the League of Nations Museum, at the Palais des Nations. The following day, he held a breakfast meeting with the heads of the United Nations organizations based in Geneva.
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Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon arrived in Madrid, Spain, on Friday, 16 July, in the morning, to attend the first meeting of the Millennium Development Goals Advocacy Group, which he had recently launched.
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Following is the text of UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s video message to the children of Gaza on the occasion of the UNRWA Summer Games, to be held on 22 July: