Travel

United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, accompanied by Madam Ban Soon-taek, arrived in Amman, Jordan, from Ethiopia on Tuesday morning, 31 January.

On Saturday evening, 28 January, United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki‑moon, accompanied by Madam Ban Soon-taek, arrived in Addis Ababa from Zurich to attend the eighteenth ordinary session of the Assembly of the African Union.

In late January-early February, United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon and Madam Ban Soon-taek travelled to Switzerland, Ethiopia, Jordan, Israel and the Occupied Palestinian Territory. They arrived in Davos, Switzerland, from New York on Thursday morning, 26 January, where the Secretary-General met with a number of private-sector personalities at the World Economic Forum.

United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon arrived in Abu Dhabi, the capital of the United Arab Emirates, on the afternoon of Sunday, 15 January, from Beirut. The main aim was to attend the World Future Energy Summit and to launch the Year of Sustainable Energy. He also held a range of bilateral meetings and addressed the closing session of the Assembly of the International Renewable Energy Agency.

United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon arrived in Doha, Qatar, early on Saturday, 10 December, to participate in the Fourth Forum of the United Nations Alliance of Civilizations. That day, he attended a lunch hosted by Nassir Abdulaziz al-Nasser, President of the General Assembly.

United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon arrived in Nairobi, Kenya, in the afternoon of Thursday, 8 December. He met with the President of Kenya, Mwai Kibaki, and the Foreign Minister of Kenya, Moses Wetangula. They discussed the situations in Somalia, in Sudan and South Sudan. The next morning, the Secretary-General left for Mogadishu on an unannounced visit to the Somali capital.

United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon arrived in Durban, South Africa, on the morning of Tuesday, 6 December, to take part in the seventeenth Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change.

United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon arrived in Bonn on Sunday, 4 December, where he was welcomed at City Hall by Lord Mayor Jürgen Nimptsch. There, he also met with German Foreign Minister Guido Westerwelle. The Secretary-General thanked the German Government for holding the Conference on Afghanistan, which provided a vital opportunity to refocus attention on the civilian aspects of transition in Afghanistan, essential to ensuring a sustainable transformation.

United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, accompanied by Mrs. Ban Soon-taek, arrived in Busan, the second city of the Republic of Korea, on the evening of Tuesday, 29 November, after a flight from New York with a transfer in Seoul. The main aim of the visit was to attend the fourth High-Level Forum on Aid Effectiveness, co-hosted by the Government of the Republic of Korea and the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD).