Secretary-General

Following is UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s message for International Happiness Day, observed on 20 March:

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 on World Water Day, to be observed on 22 March:

United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon announced today the appointment of Petko Draganov of Bulgaria as his Special Representative and Head of the United Nations Regional Centre for Preventive Diplomacy for Central Asia (UNRCCA) in Ashgabat, Turkmenistan.

Following are UN Secretary-General Bank Ki-moon’s remarks at a symposium on lessons learned from the Great East Japan Earthquake, held at Tohoku University in Sendai, Japan today:

Following is UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s message on the International Day of Forests, to be observed on 21 March:

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 at a symposium on the seventieth anniversary of the United Nations, held at the United Nations University in Tokyo today:

Following are UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s remarks, as prepared for delivery, at the Japanese Global Compact Local Network, in Tokyo today:

On 29 December 2014, the General Assembly, in its resolution 69/246, requested the Secretary-General to appoint an independent panel of experts to examine and assess the probative value of new information related to the tragic death, in September 1961, of Dag Hammarskjöld and the members of the party accompanying him.