Secretary-General

On Tuesday, 24 February, United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, accompanied by Madam Ban Soon-taek, flew from New York to Asunción, Paraguay, for an official visit to the country.

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 Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s remarks, as prepared for delivery, at a meeting on the 2015 World Education Forum, in New York today:

Following is the text of UN Secretary- General Ban Ki-moon’s video message to the Human Rights Council meeting on climate change, in Geneva today:

Following is UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s message, as delivered by Michal Broza, Officer-in-Charge, United Nations Information Centre in Prague, for the opening ceremony of the Final Conference of the twentieth Prague Student Summit, in Prague today:

United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon announced today the appointment of Major General Michael Lollesgaard of Denmark as the Force Commander of the United Nations Multidimensional Integrated Stabilization Mission in Mali (MINUSMA).

Following are UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s remarks to the General Assembly High-level Debate:  Advancing Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women and Girls for a Transformative Post-2015 Agenda, in New York today:

United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon announced today the appointment of Yannick Glemarec of France as Deputy Executive Director for Policy and Programme, United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women (UN-Women) at the Assistant Secretary-General level.  He will succeed John Hendra of Canada to whom the Secretary-General is grateful for his commitment and dedicated service to the Organization.