ON YOUTH, DEVELOPMENT, ‘WORLD HAS MUCH TO LEARN FROM YOUR EXPERIENCE AND EXAMPLE’,

SAYS SECRETARY-GENERAL IN MESSAGE TO IBERO-AMERICAN SUMMIT

 

Following is the text of UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s video message to the Ibero-American Summit, being held in San Salvador, 29 to 31 October:

Biographical Note

SECRETARY-GENERAL APPOINTS CHARLES PETRIE OF FRANCE

 

DEPUTY SPECIAL REPRESENTATIVE FOR SOMALIA

 

SECRETARY-GENERAL URGES INTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY TO SUPPORT WEST AFRICAN COUNTRIES

IN COMBAT AGAINST ‘ALARMING SURGE’ IN DRUG TRAFFICKING, ORGANIZED CRIME

Achieving Millennium Development Goals requires stewardship of World’s wetlands,

Secretary-General tells meeting of contracting parties of Ramsar Convention

Secretary-General welcomes regional initiatives to hold talks

on Zimbabwe power-sharing government

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

SECRETARY-GENERAL EXTREMELY CONCERNED BY FURTHER SECURITY DETERIORATION

IN EASTERN DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF CONGO

 

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

BRIGADIER GENERAL ISHMEEL BEN QUARTEY OF GHANA TO SERVE AS ACTING FORCE COMMANDER

IN DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF CONGO PENDING APPOINTMENT OF NEW COMMANDER

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

LEADERSHIP, PARTNERSHIP CRUCIAL IN CREATING SAFER, MORE PROSPEROUS WORLD,

SAYS SECRETARY-GENERAL IN REMARKS AT UNITED NATIONS DAY CONCERT

Following are UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s remarks at the concert for United Nations Day, in New York, 24 October:

United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon and Madam Ban Soon-taek travelled from United Nations Headquarters to Cambridge, Massachusetts, in the morning of Tuesday, 21 October, arriving in the early afternoon at Harvard University, where the Secretary-General was to deliver a speech entitled “Securing the common good in a time of global crises”.

UN MUST ENSURE GLOBAL FINANCIAL CRISIS DOES NOT DEAL CRUSHING FINAL BLOW

TO POOREST OF POOR, SECRETARY-GENERAL TELLS CHIEF EXECUTIVES BOARD