Statements and Messages

Following is the text of UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s video message to the World Tunnel Congress, in Bangkok, 21 May:

Following is UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s message to the World Health Assembly, delivered by Kassym-Jomart Tokayev, Director-General of the United Nations Office at Geneva, 21 May:

Following is UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s message, as delivered by Vijay Nambiar, Special Adviser of the Secretary-General on Myanmar, on the tenth anniversary of the restoration of independence of Timor-Leste, in Dili, 20 May:

Following are UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s closing remarks to the high-level thematic debate on the “State of the World Economy and Finance and Its Impact on Development”, 18 May, in New York:

The following statement was issued on 17 May by the Spokesperson for Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon:

Following are UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s remarks to the Global Classrooms Model UN Meeting, “Youth of the World: Make Some Noise!”, in New York, 17 May:

Following are Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s remarks, as prepared for delivery, at an event hosted by the Consulate General of the Republic of Korea in New York 16 March:

Following is the text of UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s video message for the Headquarters concert on Victims of Slavery and the Transatlantic Slave Trade, in New York, 15 May:

Following is the text of Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s video message to the high-level event to commemorate the fifth anniversary of the adoption of the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, in New York, 17 May (recorded 9 May):

Following are UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s remarks to the high-level debate on the “State of the World Economy and Finance and Its Impact on Development”, in New York, 17 May: