Statements and Messages

Following are UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s remarks at the Round Table Event on the Millennium Development Goals and Post-2015 Development Agenda, as prepared for delivery, in Maputo, on 20 May:

Following is UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s message to the World Health Assembly, as delivered by Kassym-Jomart Tokayev, Director-General of the United Nations Office at Geneva, in Geneva, on 20 May:

Following is UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s message, as delivered by Wu Hongbo, Under-Secretary-General for Economic and Social Affairs, to the twelfth session of the United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues, in New York, 20 May:

Following is UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s message on the International Day for Biological Diversity, to be observed on 22 May:

Following is UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s message for Vesak Day, to be observed on 24 May:

Following is UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s message to the Rotary International Peace Forum, in Hiroshima, 17 May:

Following is the text of UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s video message for World Telecommunication and Information Society Day, observed on 17 May:

Following is UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s message, delivered by Navi Pillay, United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, to the International Forum on the International Day against Homophobia and Transphobia, in The Hague on 16 May:

Following are UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s remarks at the launch of the Global Assessment Report on Disaster Risk Reduction, in New York, on 15 May:

Following is UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s message, delivered by Rebeca Grynspan, Under-Secretary-General and Associate Administrator of the United Nations Development Programme, to the High-level Conference on Support and Development of Mali, in Brussels, on 15 May: