Statements and Messages

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

Following are UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s remarks at the Habibi & Hawara restaurant in Vienna, Austria, today:

Following is the UN Secretary-General’s message on the International Day of Commemoration and Dignity of the Victims of the Crime of Genocide and of the Prevention of this Crime, on 9 December:

Following is UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s message to the twenty-third Ministerial Council of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE), delivered by Petko Draganov, Special Representative and Head of the United Nations Regional Centre for Preventive Diplomacy for Central Asia, in Hamburg, Germany, today:

Following is the text of UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s video message to the ninth Bali Democracy Forum, in Bali, Indonesia, today:

The text of Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s video message to the Paris meeting of partners of Burkina Faso for the National Plan for Economic and Social Development 2016-2020 is not available in English.  For the French text, please see www.un.org/press/fr/2016/sgsm18337.doc.htm.

Following is UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s message for Human Rights Day, observed on 10 December:

Following are UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s remarks to inaugurate the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) branding at the Vienna International Centre, in Vienna today:

Following is UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s message to the twenty-second International Congress of Supreme Audit Institutions, delivered by Wu Hongbo, Under-Secretary-General for Economic and Social Affairs, in Abu Dhabi today:

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