Secretary-General

Following is UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s message for World AIDS Day, observed on 1 December:

United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon announced today the appointment of Olufemi Elias of Nigeria as Registrar of the International Residual Mechanism for Criminal Tribunals, with effect from 1 January 2017. 

Following is UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s message, delivered by Antonio Prado, Deputy Executive Secretary of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean, to the Convention on the Prohibition of the Use, Stockpiling, Production and Transfer of Anti-Personnel Mines and on Their Destruction, in Santiago today:

Following is the text of UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s video message to the Budapest Water Summit, in Budapest today:

Following are UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s remarks as prepared for delivery to the side event on the roll-out process of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in Ashgabat, Turkmenistan, today:

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

Following are UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s remarks as prepared for delivery at the opening of the new UN House with President Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov, in Ashgabat, Turkmenistan, today:

Following are UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s remarks as prepared for delivery at the opening session of the Global Sustainable Transport Conference, in Ashgabat, Turkmenistan, today: 

Following are UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s welcoming remarks at the opening session of the Global Sustainable Transport Conference in Ashgabat, Turkministan, today:

Following is UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s message for the International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People, observed on 29 November: