Statements and Messages

Following are UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s remarks to a performance today in the General Assembly Hall by Rita Yahan-Farouz, a singer of Israeli-Iranian heritage, sponsored by the Permanent Mission of Israel to the United Nations:

Following is UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s statement to the Security Council consultations on the Special Report on the Democratic Republic of the Congo and the Great Lakes region, in New York, 5 March:

Following are UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s remarks on violence against women and girls, at a high-level side event of the fifty-seventh session of the Commission on the Status of Women, in New York, 5 March:

Following are UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s remarks at the opening of the “Journeys to Schools” Exhibition, in New York, 4 March:

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

Following is UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s message for International Women’s Day, to be observed on 8 March:

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

Following is the text of UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s annual Sergio Vieira de Mello Lecture, as prepared for delivery, in Geneva on 1 March:

Following are UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s remarks to the High-Level Panel on Human Rights Mainstreaming at the Human Rights Council, in Geneva, 1 March:

Following is UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s message, delivered by Oscar Fernandez-Taranco, Assistant Secretary-General for Political Affairs, to the United Nations Seminar on Assistance to the Palestinian People, in Rome on 27 February: