Statements and Messages

Following is UN Secretary-General’s message, as delivered by B. Lynn Pascoe, Under-Secretary-General for Political Affairs, to the Ministerial Council of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE), in Vilnius, Lithuania, 7 December:

Following is the text of UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s video message, aired on 7 December, for the sixtieth anniversary of the 1951 Convention Relating to the Status of Refugees and the fiftieth anniversary of the 1961 Convention on the Reduction of Statelessness, held in Geneva, 6-7 December:

Following are UN Secretary-General’s remarks on mobilizing long-term climate financing for developing countries, in Durban, South Africa, 7 December:

Following is UN Secretary-General’s message to the Nobel Laureate Symposium on Global Sustainability, in Durban, South Africa, 6 December:

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

Following are UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s remarks, as prepared for delivery at the event on “Clean Industrial Revolution” in Durban on 6 December:

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

Following are UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s remarks to the seventeenth United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) Conference of Parties High-level Segment in Durban, South Africa, on 6 December:

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 Human Rights Day, observed on 10 December: