SECRETARY-GENERAL URGES RENEWED COMMITMENT TO REVERSING LAND DEGRADATION,

IN MESSAGE FOR WORLD DAY TO COMBAT DESERTIFICATION AND DROUGHT, 17 JUNE

Following is the text of UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s message on the World Day to Combat Desertification and Drought, 17 June:

SECRETARY-GENERAL, PROFOUNDLY SAD ABOUT DEATH OF VIET NAM’S FORMER PRIME MINISTER,

SAYS VO VAN KIET WAS MAJOR FORCE BEHIND COUNTRY’S ECONOMIC REFORMS

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

OPENING HIGH-LEVEL MEETING BETWEEN EQUATORIAL GUINEA, GABON TOWARDS RESOLVING

 

BORDER DISPUTE, SECRETARY-GENERAL COMMENDS PARTIES’ COMMITMENT TO SETTLEMENT

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

SECRETARY-GENERAL URGES DELEGATIONS OF EQUATORIAL GUINEA, GABON TO MAINTAIN

 

CONTACT WITH UNITED NATIONS MEDIATION IN BORDER DISPUTE

 

IMAGES CAN SPUR EFFORTS TO SAFEGUARD FRAGILE PLANET, SAYS SECRETARY-GENERAL

AT OPENING OF EXHIBIT FEATURING WORK BY UNITED NATIONS PHOTOGRAPHERS

SECRETARY-GENERAL CLARIFIES SELECTION PROCESS REGARDING

 

UNITED NATIONS HIGH COMMISSIONER FOR HUMAN RIGHTS

 

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

SECRETARY-GENERAL TO CIVIL SOCIETY HEARINGS FOR HIGH-LEVEL AIDS MEETING:  ‘WE MUST

KEEP OUR FOOT ON THE ACCELERATOR, NAVIGATE THE LONGER ROAD MAP AT THE SAME TIME’

SECRETARY-GENERAL WELCOMES AGREEMENT REACHED YESTERDAY BETWEEN PARTIES IN SOMALIA

AS IMPORTANT STEP TOWARDS DURABLE POLITICAL SETTLEMENT

 

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

SECRETARY-GENERAL TO GENERAL ASSEMBLY CITES SOME ENCOURAGING TRENDS IN COMBATING

HIV/AIDS, YET UNACCEPTABLE RATE OF NEW INFECTIONS; CALLS ON ALL TO BRIDGE GAPS

SECRETARY-GENERAL SAYS AIDS overwhelmingly KILLS PEOPLE IN MOST PRODUCTIVE YEARS,

SO BUSINESS should SUPPORT UNIVERSAL ACCESS TO HIV PREVENTION, TREATMENT, CARE