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Secretary-General


SG/SM/14679-NR/231-REC/249
The following is UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s message to the meeting of parties to the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE) Convention on the Protection and Use of Transboundary Watercourses and International Lakes, as delivered by Andrey Vasilyev, Deputy Executive Secretary of the UNECE, in Rome, to be held between 28 and 30 November:
SG/A/1379-BIO/4432-IHA/1302
United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon announced today the appointment of Abdullah al Matouq of Kuwait as his Humanitarian Envoy for Kuwait. The Secretary-General looks forward to Mr. Al Matouq working closely with the Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs to build stronger partnerships in Kuwait and the Gulf Cooperation Council region.
SG/T/2874

United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon arrived in Sana'a on the morning of Monday, 19 November, after leaving New York late on Saturday, 17 November, on a flight to Dubai, where he stopped overnight. The Secretary-General spent the day in Yemen to mark the first anniversary of the 23 November conclusion of the Yemen Peace and Transition Agreement and lend his personal support to that transition process.