SG/SM/12461
The following statement was issued today by the Spokesperson for UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon:
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SG/SM/12460-OBV/811
Following is the text of remarks made by UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon to the student observance of the International Day of Peace, today, in New York:
SG/SM/12459-OBV/810
Following are Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s remarks at the Peace Bell ceremony, today, in New York:
“The near poor are becoming the new poor” as a result of the global financial crisis, the Deputy Secretary-General of the United Nations said today at Headquarters, as she announced the development of the United Nations Global Impact and Vulnerability Alert System, or “GIVAS”.
SG/SM/12458/Rev.1
Following is a transcript of UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s press conference held in New York today, 17 September:
SG/SM/12457-AFR/1888
The following is a statement by UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon:
SG/T/2697
United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon arrived in Mexico City on the afternoon of Tuesday, 8 September. The primary purpose of his trip was to open the sixty-second annual Department of Public Information/Non-Governmental Organizations (DPI/NGO) Conference. The Conference’s theme this year was “For Peace and Development: Disarm Now!”.
SG/T/2695
United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, accompanied by Madam Ban Soon-taek, arrived in Oslo, Norway, late in the evening of Sunday, 30 August, on his way to the Polar Ice Rim.
SG/SM/12456-OBV/809
Following are Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s remarks at the United Nations Democracy Fund event on the International Day of Democracy, in New York, on 15 September:
“The Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) are more than a set of targets – they are a solemn promise to the world’s poorest and most vulnerable,” United Nations Deputy Secretary-General Asha-Rose Migiro said today at a Headquarters press briefing to launch the 2009 report of the MDG Gap Task Force.