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SG/SM/11891

SECRETARY-GENERAL SADDENED BY DEATH, DESTRUCTION FROM PAKISTAN EARTHQUAKE, SAYS UNITED NATIONS STANDS READY TO LEND HUMANITARIAN ASSISTANCE

29 October 2008
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Department of Public Information • News and Media Division • New York

SECRETARY-GENERAL SADDENED BY DEATH, DESTRUCTION FROM PAKISTAN EARTHQUAKE,


SAYS UNITED NATIONS STANDS READY TO LEND HUMANITARIAN ASSISTANCE


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

SG/SM/11890

ON YOUTH, DEVELOPMENT, ‘WORLD HAS MUCH TO LEARN FROM YOUR EXPERIENCE AND EXAMPLE’, SAYS SECRETARY-GENERAL IN MESSAGE TO IBERO-AMERICAN SUMMIT

29 October 2008
Secretary-GeneralSG/SM/11890
Department of Public Information • News and Media Division • New York

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:

SG/SM/11889-AFR/1761-SOC/NAR/937

SECRETARY-GENERAL URGES INTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY TO SUPPORT WEST AFRICAN COUNTRIES IN COMBAT AGAINST ‘ALARMING SURGE’ IN DRUG TRAFFICKING, ORGANIZED CRIME

28 October 2008
Secretary-GeneralSG/SM/11889
AFR/1761
SOC/NAR/937
Department of Public Information • News and Media Division • New York

SECRETARY-GENERAL URGES INTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY TO SUPPORT WEST AFRICAN COUNTRIES


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

SG/SM/11886-AFR/1759-PKO/197

SECRETARY-GENERAL EXTREMELY CONCERNED BY FURTHER SECURITY DETERIORATION IN EASTERN DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF CONGO

27 October 2008
Secretary-GeneralSG/SM/11886
AFR/1759
PKO/197
Department of Public Information • News and Media Division • New York

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:

SG/SM/11885-AFR/1758-PKO/196

BRIGADIER GENERAL ISHMEEL BEN QUARTEY OF GHANA TO SERVE AS ACTING FORCE COMMANDER IN DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF CONGO PENDING APPOINTMENT OF NEW COMMANDER

27 October 2008
Secretary-GeneralSG/SM/11885
AFR/1758
PKO/196
Department of Public Information • News and Media Division • New York

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:

SG/SM/11884-OBV/740

LEADERSHIP, PARTNERSHIP CRUCIAL IN CREATING SAFER, MORE PROSPEROUS WORLD, SAYS SECRETARY-GENERAL IN REMARKS AT UNITED NATIONS DAY CONCERT

27 October 2008
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OBV/740
Department of Public Information • News and Media Division • New York

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:

SG/T/2626

ACTIVITIES OF SECRETARY-GENERAL IN BOSTON, 21 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”.