Statements and Messages

The following is UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s statement on the adoption by the General Assembly’s Third Committee (Social, Humanitarian and Cultural) of the resolution “Moratorium on the use of the death penalty”:

The following statement was issued today 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 is UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s message to the International Year of Cooperatives Closing Ceremony, as delivered by Assistant Secretary-General for Economic Development Shamshad Akhtar, in New York, 20 November:

Following are UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s remarks to a special meeting of the Security Council Counter-Terrorism Committee, delivered by Deputy Secretary-General Jan Eliasson, in New York on 20 November:

Following are UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s message to the High-Level Event on Autism and Disabilities, as delivered by Assistant-Secretary-General for Economic Development, Shamshad Akhtar, in New York, on 19 November:

Following are UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s remarks, as prepared for delivery, on the first anniversary of the conclusion of the Yemen Peace and Transition Agreement, in Sana’a on 19 November:

Following in UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s messages for Africa Industrialization Day, “Accelerating industrialization for boosting intra-African trade”, observed on 20 November:

Following are UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s remarks, delivered by Deputy Secretary-General Jan Eliasson to the Security Council debate on maritime piracy as a threat to international peace and security, in New York today, 19 November:

The following are UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s message to the Fifth Global South Development Expo, in Vienna on 19 November: