Secretary-General calls vanishing antarCtica sea ice, shrinking penguin population

‘deeply worrying signs’ as he underscores threat of global warming

Following is the text of UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s statement on Antarctica on 9 November:

THEME OF SOCIAL COHESION INTIMATELY LINKED WITH UNITED NATIONS WORK WORLDWIDE,

SECRETARY-GENERAL SAYS IN ADDRESS TO IBERO-AMERICAN SUMMIT

 

STRONG POLITICAL LEADERSHIP NEEDED TO CLOSE ‘IMPLEMENTATION GAP’ IN GLOBAL

ANTI-POVERTY GOALS, SAYS SECRETARY-GENERAL IN SANTIAGO REMARKS

 

SECRETARY-GENERAL APPLAUDS EFFORTS OF CHAD GOVERNMENT ON ATTEMPTED

ABDUCTION OF 103 CHILDREN, PROMISES UN HUMANITARIAN ASSISTANCE

This is the text of a statement issued today by the Spokesperson for UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon:

SECRETARY-GENERAL, IN MESSAGE TO MEETING ON CONVENTIONAL WEAPONS, CALLS

FOR LEGALLY BINDING TREATY PROHIBITING ‘HORRENDOUS’ CLUSTER MUNITIONS

STEP UP, SPEAK OUT, DO MORE ON INTERNATIONAL STAGE, SECRETARY-GENERAL URGES

WORLD’S LARGEST CONTINENT IN ADDRESS TO ASIA SOCIETY GALA DINNER

Following is the text of UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s address to the Asia Society annual gala dinner in New York yesterday, 6 November:

SECRETARY-GENERAL DEEPLY SADDENED BY DEPLORABLE SUICIDE ATTACK TODAY IN NORTHERN

AFGHANISTAN, REPORTEDLY KILLING MORE THAN 40 CIVILIANS, WOUNDING EVEN MORE

 

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

LINKS BETWEEN UNITED NATIONS, REGIONAL ENTITIES OF GROWING IMPORTANCE

IN PEACEKEEPING OPERATIONS, SECRETARY-GENERAL TELLS SECURITY COUNCIL

SECRETARY-GENERAL, IN MESSAGE TO CONFERENCE ON CONVENTIONAL WEAPONS CONVENTION

PROTOCOL II, URGES RENEWED EFFORTS FOR ELIMINATION OF LANDMINES

SECRETARY-GENERAL, CONCERNED AT RECENT FIGHTING IN AFGHANISTAN, UNDERLINES CRUCIAL

ROLE OF NATO, AFGHAN SECURITY FORCES IN DETERRING TERRORIST, EXTREMIST GROUPS

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