Secretary-General

Following is the text of UN Secretary‑General Ban Ki‑moon’s video message for the sixtieth anniversary of the Hospitality Committee for United Nations Delegations, in New York today:

Following are UN Secretary‑General Ban Ki‑moon’s remarks, as prepared for delivery, on the centenary of the First World War “Christmas Truce”, in New York today:

Following are UN Secretary‑General Ban Ki‑moon’s remarks at the Economic and Social Council meeting on Ebola: a threat to sustainable development, in New York today:

United Nations Secretary‑General Ban Ki‑moon today announced the appointment of Raisedon Zenenga of Zimbabwe as his Deputy Special Representative of the United Nations Assistance Mission in Somalia (UNSOM).

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 to the General Assembly on the Synthesis Report on the Post-2015 Development Agenda, in New York, on 4 December:

Following is UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s message, as delivered by Michael Møller, Acting Director-General, United Nations Office at Geneva, at the Ministerial Council of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE), held in Basel, Switzerland, from 4 to 5 December:

Following is UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s message, as delivered by Abdoulaye Bathily, Special Representative of the Secretary-General and Head of the United Nations Regional Office for Central Africa (UNOCA), to the Thirty-Ninth Ministerial Meeting of the United Nations Standing Advisory Committee on Security Questions in Central Africa, held in Bujumbura, on 4 December:

United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon announced today the appointment of Cristina Gallach of Spain as Under-Secretary-General for Communications and Public Information.

Following is UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s message, as delivered by Abdallah Al Dardari, Deputy Executive Secretary of the Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia (ESCWA), to the thirteenth Annual Conference of the Arab Thought Foundation, in Skhirat, Morocco, 3 December: