Secretary-General

Following is the text of UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s video message to the Global Fund for Women on the occasion of their twenty-fifth anniversary, in San Francisco, United States, on 30 October:

United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today announced the appointment of Fatiha Serour (Algeria) as his Deputy Special Representative for Somalia. The Secretary-General extends his sincere thanks to Peter de Clercq of the Netherlands, who served as Deputy Special Representative since the establishment of the United Nations Assistance Mission in Somalia (UNSOM), and was recently appointed Deputy Special Representative for the United Nations Stabilization Mission in Haiti (MINUSTAH).

Following are UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s remarks to the Fifth Committee of the General Assembly on the proposed programme budget for the biennium 2014-2015, in New York, 28 October:

Following are UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s remarks to the Security Council’s high-level meeting on partnership between the United Nations and the Organization of Islamic Cooperation, in New York on 28 October:

The following statement was issued today by the Spokesperson for UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon:

The following statement was issued today by the Spokesperson for UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon:

Following is the text of UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s video message to the Warsaw Dialogue for Democracy, to be held between 25 and 26 October:

Following is UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s message for the Future Policy Award Ceremony, as delivered by Angela Kane, High Representative for Disarmament Affairs, in New York on 23 October: