Secretary-General

Following are UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s remarks to the Security Council meeting on drug trafficking as a threat to international peace and security, in New York today, 8 December:

Following are UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s remarks at the breakfast meeting on the Secretary-General’s Action Plan on Nuclear Disarmament and Nuclear Non-Proliferation, in New York today, 8 December:

United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has announced today the appointment of Rebeca Grynspan of Costa Rica as Under-Secretary-General and Associate Administrator of the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP). Ms. Grynspan will replace Ad Melkert, who has been appointed the Secretary-General’s Special Representative for Iraq.

Following is UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s message for International Anti-Corruption Day, to be observed on 9 December:

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 to the Fifth Committee (Administrative and Budgetary) in New York, today, 7 December:

Following is UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s message to the thirteenth session of the General Conference of the United Nations Industrial Development Organization in Vienna today, 7 December:

United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon and the Chairperson of the African Union Commission, Jean Ping, have appointed Ibrahim Gambari of Nigeria as Joint African Union-United Nations Special Representative for Darfur, with effect from 1 January 2010.

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 on the thirtieth anniversary of the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women, today, 3 December, in New York: