Secretary-General

United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today announced the appointment of Magdy Martinez-Soliman of Spain as Assistant Administrator and Director of the Bureau for Policy and Programme Support at the United Nations Development Programme.

Following are UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s remarks to the Preparatory Committee for the UN Conference on Housing and Sustainable Urban Development, in New York today:

United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon and African Union Commission Chairperson Nkosazana Dlamini Zuma announced today the appointment of Abiodun Oluremi Bashua of Nigeria as Deputy Joint Special Representative for the African Union-United Nations Hybrid Operation in Darfur.

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 the opening of the sixty-ninth session of the General Assembly, in New York today:

Following are UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s remarks, as prepared for delivery, at the wreath-laying ceremony commemorating the fifty-third anniversary of the death of Secretary-General Dag Hammarskjöld, in New York today:

Following are UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s remarks at the launch of the new Climate Economy Commission Report, in New York today:

Following are UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s remarks at the Church of the Holy Family, in New York today:

The following is UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s message, delivered by Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia (ESCWA) Executive Secretary Rima Khalaf, to the twenty-eighth Ministerial Session of ESCWA, in Tunis today: