Travel

United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon arrived in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt, from New York, having transited via Istanbul, on Saturday morning, 28 March, to attend the twenty-sixth Summit of the League of Arab States.

United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon paid a previously unannounced visit to Iraq on Monday, 30 March.  He arrived from Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt, early in the day, and was greeted at Baghdad International Airport by Muhammad Jawad Al-Doraky, Undersecretary for Legal Affairs and Multilateral Relations of Iraq.

United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon arrived in Rome in the evening of 17 March, from Tokyo, Japan.

United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, accompanied by Madam Ban Soon-taek, arrived in Tokyo in the afternoon of Friday, 13 March.  They then flew to the city of Sendai, in the north of Japan, arriving on the same evening.

On Thursday, 26 February, United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, accompanied by Madam Ban Soon-taek, flew from Asunción, Paraguay, to Santiago de Chile, to attend a high-level event on “Women in Power and Decision-Making”, organized by the Government of Chile in cooperation with the United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women (UN-Women).

On Tuesday, 24 February, United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, accompanied by Madam Ban Soon-taek, flew from New York to Asunción, Paraguay, for an official visit to the country.

United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon arrived in Washington, D.C., on Wednesday evening, 18 February, to attend the Summit on Countering Violent Extremism, hosted by the United States Government.

United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon arrived in Dubai from Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, on Sunday evening, 8 February.

United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon arrived in Riyadh from New York on Saturday evening, 7 February.  Soon after his arrival, the Secretary-General and his delegation attended a dinner with United Nations staff working in Saudi Arabia.

United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, accompanied by his wife, Madame Ban Soon-taek, arrived in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, late on Thursday evening, 29 January, to attend the twenty-fourth Summit of the African Union.