Secretary-General

United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has appointed Deborah Seward of the United States as Director of the United Nations Regional Information Centre (UNRIC) in Brussels.  She assumes her duties on 14 March.

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

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

Following is UN Secretary-General Ban ki-moon’s message, delivered by Cristina Gallach, Under-Secretary-General for Communications and Public Information, to the thirty-eighth annual Lions Day at the United Nations, in New York today:

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

United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has appointed Lynn St. Amour of the United States as the new Chair of the Multistakeholder Advisory Group of the Internet Governance Forum.

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

Following is UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s message on the upcoming fifth anniversary of the great east Japan earthquake and tsunami, in New York today:

The Chairperson of the African Union Commission, Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma, and the Secretary-General of the United Nations, Ban Ki-moon, condemn Wednesday’s attack on the African Union-United Nations Hybrid Operation in Darfur (UNAMID) by an unknown armed group, in which one South African peacekeeper was killed and another wounded.  The attack took place 40 kilometres south-west of Kutum, North Darfur, while the peacekeepers, on patrol, were travelling from Kutum to Djarido.

Following are UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s remarks to the Security Council on sexual exploitation and abuse, in New York today: