Travel

United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, accompanied by Madam Ban Soon-taek, departed New York on Tuesday, 26 August to Bali, Indonesia, to attend the sixth Global Forum of the United Nations Alliance of Civilizations.

United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon arrived in Nanjing, China, in the evening of Friday, 15 August, to attend the opening ceremony of the Second Summer Youth Olympic Games.

United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, accompanied by his wife, Ban Soon-taek, arrived in San José, Costa Rica, on the morning of Wednesday, 30 July, on his first official visit to the Central American country.

United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, accompanied by Madam Ban Soon-taek, arrived in Managua, Nicaragua, in the morning of Tuesday, 29 July, on his first official visit to the Central American country.

United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon arrived in Cairo — the final leg of his Middle East visit — from Iraq on the evening of Thursday, 24 July.

The seventh stop on his Middle East visit took United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon to Baghdad where he arrived from Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, on Thursday morning, 24 July.

United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon arrived in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, from Amman, Jordan, on Wednesday evening, 23 July. This was the sixth leg of his Middle East tour.

United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon arrived in Amman, Jordan, from Jerusalem in the late afternoon of Wednesday, 23 July. This was the fifth leg of his Middle East visit.

Upon arrival at Ben Gurion Airport in Israel — the fourth stop on his Middle East journey — in the early afternoon of Tuesday, 22 July, United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon was greeted by Ya’akov Peri, Minister of Science and Technology. From the airport, the Secretary-General travelled by road directly to Tel Aviv to meet at the Ministry of Defense with Israeli Defense Minister Moshe Ya’alon.

United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon arrived in Cairo in the late afternoon of Monday, 21 July, on the third leg of his visit to the Middle East.