Statements and Messages

Following is the text of UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s video message to the conference “Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty: Science and Technology 2013”, in Vienna from 17-21 June:

Following is UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s message, as delivered by Under-Secretary-General Maged Abdelaziz, the Secretary-General's Special Adviser on Africa, to the High-level Dialogue on Implementing Rio+20 Decisions on Sustainable Cities and Transport, to be held in Berlin on 19 June:

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

The following statement was issued on 15 June by the Spokesperson for UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon:

The following statement was issued on 15 June by the Spokesperson for UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon:

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

Following are UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s remarks on the election of John W. Ashe as President of the sixty-eighth session of the General Assembly, 14 June in New York:

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

Following is UN Secretary-General’s message for World Day to Combat Desertification and Drought, observed on 17 June:

Following are the opening remarks from New York of UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon in an online discussion with youth in Bonn on climate change, 13 June: