Secretary-General, in statement with chile’s president, sounds new climate change

 

warning as he describes vanishing glaciers, melting WESTERN ice shelf

Secretary-General calls vanishing antarCtica sea ice, shrinking penguin population

‘deeply worrying signs’ as he underscores threat of global warming

Following is the text of UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s statement on Antarctica on 9 November:

United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon and Madam Ban Soon-taek arrived in Buenos Aires, Argentina, on Wednesday, 7 November.

THEME OF SOCIAL COHESION INTIMATELY LINKED WITH UNITED NATIONS WORK WORLDWIDE,

SECRETARY-GENERAL SAYS IN ADDRESS TO IBERO-AMERICAN SUMMIT

 

STRONG POLITICAL LEADERSHIP NEEDED TO CLOSE ‘IMPLEMENTATION GAP’ IN GLOBAL

ANTI-POVERTY GOALS, SAYS SECRETARY-GENERAL IN SANTIAGO REMARKS

 

SECRETARY-GENERAL APPLAUDS EFFORTS OF CHAD GOVERNMENT ON ATTEMPTED

ABDUCTION OF 103 CHILDREN, PROMISES UN HUMANITARIAN ASSISTANCE

This is the text of a statement issued today by the Spokesperson for UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon:

SECRETARY-GENERAL, IN MESSAGE TO MEETING ON CONVENTIONAL WEAPONS, CALLS

FOR LEGALLY BINDING TREATY PROHIBITING ‘HORRENDOUS’ CLUSTER MUNITIONS

STEP UP, SPEAK OUT, DO MORE ON INTERNATIONAL STAGE, SECRETARY-GENERAL URGES

WORLD’S LARGEST CONTINENT IN ADDRESS TO ASIA SOCIETY GALA DINNER

Following is the text of UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s address to the Asia Society annual gala dinner in New York yesterday, 6 November:

Biographical Note

SECRETARY-GENERAL DEEPLY SADDENED BY DEPLORABLE SUICIDE ATTACK TODAY IN NORTHERN

AFGHANISTAN, REPORTEDLY KILLING MORE THAN 40 CIVILIANS, WOUNDING EVEN MORE

 

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