United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon announced today the appointment of Ali H. Al-Za’tari of Jordan as his new Deputy Special Representative and Deputy Head of the United Nations Support Mission in Libya (UNSMIL), where he will also serve as United Nations Resident Coordinator, Humanitarian Coordinator and Resident Representative of the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP).
The following statement was issued today by the Spokesman for UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on the twenty-ninth anniversary of the Chernobyl disaster, to be commemorated on 26 April:
Following are UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s remarks at the meeting of the Partnership Group on Myanmar, in New York today:
Following is UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s message, delivered by Amina J. Mohammed, Special Adviser on Post-2015 Development Planning, to the Global Philanthropy Forum Conference, in Washington, D.C., today:
Following are UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s remarks to the Security Council at the open debate on the Role of Youth in Countering Violent Extremism and Promoting Peace, in New York today:
Following is UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s message, as delivered by Yury Fedotov, Director General of the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC), to the second Ministerial Anti-Drug Conference on the Influence of Drugs on Global Security and Sustainable Development, in Moscow today:
Following are UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s remarks at the panel discussion “highlighting a counter-narrative: promoting tolerance for diversity, freedom of speech and human rights”, in New York today:
Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon travelled to Washington, D.C., on Wednesday evening, 15 April, in order to meet with United States officials and participate in the Spring Meetings of the World Bank Group and the International Monetary Fund. Ban Ki-moon was the first Secretary-General to receive invitations to speak to the Development Committee and the International Monetary and Finance Committee of those two bodies.
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 Virginia Gamba, Deputy to the High Representative for Disarmament Affairs, to the “A Century of Weapons of Mass Destruction: Enough!” event, organized by the municipalities of Ypres and Langemarck-poelkapelle in cooperation with the International Network of Mayors for Peace, held in Ypres, Belgium, today:
