Secretary-General

United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon and Madam Ban Soon-taek arrived in Paris from Rome on Tuesday afternoon, 28 April.

United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, accompanied by Madam Ban Soon-taek, departed New York on Sunday, 26 April.  They arrived in Rome at midday the following day.

United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon announced today the appointment of Mourad Wahba of Egypt as his Deputy Special Representative for the United Nations Stabilization Mission in Haiti (MINUSTAH), where he will also serve as United Nations Resident Coordinator, Humanitarian Coordinator and Resident Representative of the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP). 

United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today announced the appointment of Mbaranga Gasarabwe of Rwanda as his Deputy Special Representative of the United Nations Multidimensional Integrated Stabilization Mission in Mali (MINUSMA), where she will also serve as United Nations Resident Coordinator, Humanitarian Coordinator and Resident Representative of the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP).

Following are UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s remarks, as prepared for delivery, at the high-level panel on the commemoration of the end of the Second World War, in Gdansk, Poland, today:

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

Following is the text of UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s video message to the G7 Stakeholder Conference on Climate Risk Insurance, held in Berlin today:

Following are UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s remarks at the Peace Bell ceremony, in New York today:

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

Following are UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s remarks at the ceremony for the planting of the “Tree of Peace and Unity” to commemorate the end of the Second World War and the establishment of the United Nations, in New York today: