Statements and Messages

Following is UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s message to mark the International Day for the Abolition of Slavery, commemorated on 2 December:

The following statement was issued by the Spokesperson for UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on 26 November:

Following is UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s message for the International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People, observed on 29 November:

Following is the text of UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s video message to the 2010 World Forum on Hansen’s Disease (leprosy), held in Seoul, Republic of Korea, 24-26 November:

Following is UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s message on the International Day of Persons with Disabilities, to be observed on 3 December:

Following is UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s message for World Aids Day, to be observed on 1 December:

Following is the text of UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s message, as delivered by Sergei Ordzhonikidze, Director-General of the United Nations Office at Geneva and Secretary-General of the Conference on Disarmament, to the Twelfth Annual Conference of the High Contracting Parties to Amended Protocol II to the Convention on Certain Conventional weapons, today, 24 November, in Geneva:

Following are UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s remarks to the 2010 Young Atlanticist Summit, in Lisbon, 20 November:

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 at the commemoration of the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women, in New York, today, 23 November: