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Statements and Messages

12 April 2012

SG/SM/14225-OBV/1092-OS/1819

On First International Day of Human Space Flight, Secretary-General Expresses Hope Observance Will Move World Towards New Frontiers of Knowledge, Understanding

Following is UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s message on the International Day of Human Space Flight, today, 12 April:

11 April 2012

SG/SM/14224-AFR/2372

Alarmed at Escalation of Fighting, Secretary-General Calls on Sudan, South Sudan to Immediately Cease Hostilities, Respect Each Other’s Territorial Integrity

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

11 April 2012

SG/SM/14223-ECO/208-GA/11224

Full-Blown Food Crisis Ebbed, But Fundamental Problems Causing Clear Negative Consequences, Secretary-General Tells High-Level General Assembly Debate

Following is UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s message, as delivered by Jomo Kwame Sundaram, Assistant Secretary-General for Economic Development, to the High-Level Thematic Debate of the General Assembly on Excessive Price Volatility in Food and Related Financial and Commodity Markets, 11 April, in New York:

11 April 2012

SG/SM/14222-AFR/2371

Impunity Must Become ‘a Relic of the Past’, Secretary-General Stresses in Message for Eighteenth Anniversary of Rwanda Genocide

Following is the text of UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s video message on the eighteenth anniversary of the genocide in Rwanda, delivered on 11 April:

9 April 2012

SG/SM/14221

Alarmed by Continuing Violence, Human Rights Violations, Secretary-General Strongly Deplores Deadly Cross-border Shootings from Syria into Turkey

The following statement was issued on 9 April by the Spokesperson for UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon:

9 April 2012

SG/SM/14220-AFR/2369

Secretary-General Commends 6 April Accord between Military Junta of Mali, Mediation Team of Economic Community of West African States

The following statement was issued on 7 April by the Spokesperson for Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon:

9 April 2012

SG/SM/14219-AFR/2368

Secretary-General, Saddened by Death of Malawi’s President, Welcomes Peaceful Transition

The following statement was issued on 7 April by the Spokesperson for Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon:

9 April 2012

SG/SM/14218

Secretary-General Demands Syrian Government ‘Immediately and Unconditionally’ Cease All Military Actions against Syrian People

The following statement was issued on 6 April by the Spokesperson for UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon:

5 April 2012

SG/SM/14217-AFR/2366

Do Not Let Disarmament, Demobilization and Reintegration Process Falter, Secretary-General Appeals to Friends of Central African Republic

Following is UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s message to the Friends of the Central African Republic, delivered by B. Lynn Pascoe, Under-Secretary-General for Political Affairs, in New York on 5 April:

5 April 2012

SG/SM/14216-GA/11221

Further Militarization of Syria Conflict Not Solution, Says Secretary-General, Calling Proliferation in Sources of Violence ‘Simply Unacceptable’

Following are UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s remarks to the General Assembly on the situation in Syria, in New York on 5 April: