Statements and Messages

Following are UN Secretary‑General Ban Ki‑moon’s remarks at the Economic and Social Council meeting on Ebola: a threat to sustainable development, 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 the Synthesis Report on the Post-2015 Development Agenda, in New York, on 4 December:

Following is UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s message, as delivered by Michael Møller, Acting Director-General, United Nations Office at Geneva, at the Ministerial Council of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE), held in Basel, Switzerland, from 4 to 5 December:

Following is UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s message, as delivered by Abdoulaye Bathily, Special Representative of the Secretary-General and Head of the United Nations Regional Office for Central Africa (UNOCA), to the Thirty-Ninth Ministerial Meeting of the United Nations Standing Advisory Committee on Security Questions in Central Africa, held in Bujumbura, on 4 December:

Following is UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s message, as delivered by Abdallah Al Dardari, Deputy Executive Secretary of the Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia (ESCWA), to the thirteenth Annual Conference of the Arab Thought Foundation, in Skhirat, Morocco, 3 December:

Following is the text of UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s video message to the High-level International Conference on the Destruction of Heritage and Cultural Diversity in Iraq and Syria, in Paris on 3 December:

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 Human Rights Day, to be observed on 10 December:

Following is UN Secretary‑General Ban Ki‑moon’s message for World Soil Day and the launch of the International Year of Soils, to be observed on 5 December: