Following is UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s message to the first Review Conference of the Convention on Cluster Munitions, delivered by Virginia Gamba, Director and Deputy to the UN High Representative for Disarmament Affairs, in Dubrovnik, Croatia, today:
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Statements and Messages
Following is UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s message for International Literacy Day, observed 8 September:
The following statement was issued today by the Spokesman for UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon:
The following statement was issued today by the Spokesman for UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon:
Following is UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s message for the International Day of Charity, observed on 5 September:
Following is UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s message, delivered by Thomas Gass, United Nations Assistant Secretary-General for Economic and Social Affairs, to the breakfast meeting with parliamentarians on the implementation of the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction, in New York today:
Following are UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s remarks at the General Assembly plenary meeting to adopt a draft resolution to transmit the Agenda 2030 outcome document, 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 today to the Inter-Parliamentary Union Fourth World Conference of Speakers of Parliament, “Placing democracy at the service of peace and sustainable development: Building the world the people want”:
Following is UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s message for the International Day of Democracy, observed on 15 September: Civil society is the oxygen of democracy. We see this clearly in the world’s most vibrant and stable democracies, where government and civil society work together for common goals. Civil society acts as a catalyst for social progress and economic growth. It plays a critical role in keeping government accountable and helps represent the diverse interests of the population, including its most vulnerable groups. The role of civil society has never been more important.