Statements and Messages

Following are UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s remarks, as prepared for delivery, to the Security Council meeting on Colombia, in New York today:

Following are UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s opening remarks at the high-level event on the entry into force of the Paris Agreement, in New York today:

Following are UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s remarks to the Every Woman, Every Child high-level advisory group, in New York today:

Following are the remarks, delivered on behalf of UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon by Margaret Chan, Director-General of the World Health Organization (WHO), to the High-Level Commission on Health Employment and Economic Growth, in New York today:

Following is UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s toast, as prepared for delivery, at the lunch with Heads of State and Government, in New York today:

Following is the text of UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s video message at the event marking the second anniversary of the HeForShe campaign, in New York today:

Following is UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s message, delivered by Margaret Chan, Director-General of the World Health Organization (WHO), to the event on Polio, Past and Present:  Global Progress since the 1916 New York Polio Outbreak, in New York today:

Following is UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s message, delivered by David Nabarro, Special Adviser to the Secretary-General on the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, to the Global Goals Dinner 2016, in New York today:

Following are UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s remarks at the High-Level Leaders’ Meeting on Refugees, in New York today:

Following is UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s message, delivered by Rachel Kyte, his Special Representative for Sustainable Energy for All, to the high-level event on the African Renewable Energy Initiative, in New York today: