Secretary-General

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 annual Sergio Vieira de Mello Lecture, as prepared for delivery, in Geneva on 1 March:

Following are UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s remarks to the High-Level Panel on Human Rights Mainstreaming at the Human Rights Council, in Geneva, 1 March:

United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon announced today the appointment of Ray Chambers of the United States as his Special Envoy for Malaria and for the Financing of the Health-Related Millennium Development Goals.

Following is UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s message, delivered by Oscar Fernandez-Taranco, Assistant Secretary-General for Political Affairs, to the United Nations Seminar on Assistance to the Palestinian People, in Rome on 27 February:

Following are UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s remarks at the opening of the fifth Global Forum of the United Nations Alliance of Civilizations, in Vienna, 27 February:

United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has designated Eduardo Rojas-Briales as Commissioner-General for the Organization’s participation in Expo 2015, in Milan, Italy. Mr. Rojas-Briales is the Assistant Director-General for Forestry at the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.

Following are UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s remarks as delivered at the United Nations Alliance of Civilizations Intercultural Innovation Awards Ceremony, in Vienna on 26 February:

Following is the text of UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s video message for the International Conference on Development for All, in Dili on 26 February:

Following are UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s remarks at a youth event for the Fifth Global Forum of the United Nations Alliance of Civilizations, in Vienna, 26 February: