Statements and Messages

Following are UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s remarks, as prepared for delivery, at the Asia Society Dialogue event, in Brussels today:

Following are UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s remarks at the European Development Days Forum, in Brussels today:

Following is UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s statement, as delivered by Edmond Mulet, Chef de Cabinet, at the opening of the ninth session of the Conference of States Parties to the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, in New York today:

Following is the text of UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s video message for the Republic of Korea concert celebrating the tenth anniversary of the adoption of the Conference of States Parties to the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, in New York today:

Following is UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s message on International Widows’ Day, observed on 23 June:

Following are UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s remarks, as prepared for delivery, at the meeting with the pilots of the Solar Impulse, in New York today:

Following is UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s message on World Elder Abuse Awareness Day, observed on 15 June:

Following is UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s message to the third annual East Stockholm Food Forum, held in Stockholm from 13 to 14 June:

Following is UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s message, delivered by Kim Won-soo, Under-Secretary-General and High Representative for Disarmament Affairs, to the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty Ministerial Meeting, in Vienna today:

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