Secretary-General

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:

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 on the situation in Syria to the Security Council, in New York on 18 December 2015:

United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon flew from New York to Paris on Thursday evening, 3 December, to resume participation in the twenty-first Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (COP).

On Tuesday, 8 December, in the evening, United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon flew from Paris, France, to Helsinki, Finland, to participate in the commemoration of the sixtieth anniversary of the country’s membership in the United Nations.

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

Following is UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s message, delivered by Mohamed Ibn Chambas, Special Representative of the Secretary-General and Head of the United Nations Office for West Africa (UNOWA), on the occasion of the fortieth anniversary of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS), in Abuja, today:

Following are UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s remarks at the high-level event marking the tenth anniversary of the Central Emergency Response Fund (CERF), in New York, today:

United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has appointed Catherine Pollard of Guyana, Under-Secretary-General for General Assembly and Conference Management, as the new Coordinator for Multilingualism, in implementation of General Assembly resolution 69/250.  In this role, Ms. Pollard is responsible for coordinating the overall implementation of multilingualism Secretariat-wide.  This appointment is made pursuant to General Assembly resolutions 54/64 of 1999 and 61/266 of 2007 on the appointment of a senior official as coordinator of questions relating to multilingualism.