Following are UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s opening remarks, as prepared for delivery, to the Global Interactive Dialogue on United Nations Youth Initiatives, in New York, 5 August:
United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today announced the appointment of Ibrahim Thiaw of Mauritania as Assistant Secretary-General and Deputy Executive Director of the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP).
United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today announced the appointment of Nickolay Mladenov of Bulgaria as his Special Representative for Iraq and Head of the United Nations Assistance Mission for Iraq (UNAMI).
Following are UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s remarks, as prepared for delivery, at the ceremony marking bike rack donation by the Netherlands, on 31 July, in New York:
Following is UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s message, as delivered by Mary Robinson, Special Envoy of the Secretary-General for the Great Lakes Region, to the Summit of Heads of State and Government of the International Conference on the Great Lakes Region, in Nairobi, 31 July:
The following statement was issued today in New York by the Middle East Quartet (United Nations, Russian Federation, United States and European Union):