Secretary-General

Following is UN Secretary-General Ban Ki‑moon’s message for World Mental Health Day, observed on 10 October:

Following is UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s message, delivered by Janos Pasztor, Assistant Secretary-General on Climate Change, to the meeting of the Vulnerable Twenty Group of Ministers of Finance, in Lima today:

Following is UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s message on the International Day of Rural Women, observed on 15 October:

Following is UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s message for the International Day for Disaster Reduction, observed on 13 October:

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 Susana Malcorra, Chef de Cabinet, to the Women in Parliaments Global Forum, held in Mexico City from 7 to 9 October:

United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today announced the appointment of Maman S. Sidikou of Niger as his Special Representative for the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Head of the United Nations Organization Stabilization Mission in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (MONUSCO).

Mr. Sidikou succeeds Martin Kobler of Germany, to whom the Secretary-General is grateful for his important contribution and dedicated service for the past two years in supporting the implementation of the MONUSCO mandate.

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 Alicia Barcena, Executive Secretary of the United Nations Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC), for the “Our Oceans” conference, in Valparaiso, Chile, today: