Statements and Messages

Following is UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s message for International Volunteer Day, observed on 5 December:

Following are UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s remarks at the General Assembly high-level panel discussion on the tenth anniversary of the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, in New York today:

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 to the General Assembly on a new approach to address cholera in Haiti, in New York today: 

Following is UN Secretary-General’s Ban Ki-moon’s message on the International Day of Persons with Disabilities, observed on 3 December:

Following is the UN Secretary-General’s message, delivered by Luiza Carvalho, Regional Director of the United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women (UN-Women) for the Americas and the Caribbean to the General Assembly of the Latin American and Caribbean Parliament, in Panama City today:

Following is UN Secretary-General’s message, delivered by François Lounceny Fall, Acting Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Central Africa and Head of the United Nations Regional Office for Central Africa (UNOCA), to the forty-third ministerial meeting of the United Nations Standing Advisory Committee on Security Questions in Central Africa (UNSAC), in São Tomé, São Tomé and Principe, today:

Following is UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s message on the International Day for the Abolition of Slavery, observed on 2 December:

Following are UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s remarks at the reception hosted by the Carnegie Corporation of New York in honour of his human rights legacy, in New York today:

Following are UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s remarks at the World AIDS Day event, in New York today: