Travel

United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon arrived in Paris from Addis Ababa in the morning of Thursday, 26 May. Madam Ban Soon-taek joined him upon arrival.

United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon arrived in Bahir Dar, Ethiopia, from Abuja, Nigeria, in the evening of Tuesday, 24 May. That night, he had a working dinner with Tedros Ghebreyesus, Minister for Health of Ethiopia.

United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon arrived in Abuja, Nigeria, from Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire, in the afternoon of Sunday, 22 May. As soon as he arrived, the Secretary-General visited the Maitama General Hospital.

United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon arrived in Côte d’Ivoire from New York, after a brief stopover in Accra, Ghana, on Saturday morning, 21 May. He landed in the capital, Yamoussoukro, to attend the inauguration ceremony of President Alassane Ouattara.

United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon arrived in Geneva from Istanbul on the morning of Tuesday, 10 May. At noon, he attended a round table discussion on strengthening preparedness for nuclear accidents.

United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon arrived in Istanbul, Turkey, at noon on Saturday, 7 May. That afternoon, he spoke at an award presentation and closing ceremony of the 2011 Global Summit of Women.

United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon arrived in Sofia on Thursday afternoon, 5 May, where his first meeting was with the Mayor of Sofia, Yordanka Fandakova. The Secretary-General next met with Prime Minister Boyko Borissov. The Prime Minister and the Secretary-General discussed climate change, nuclear safety, disaster risk reduction and the fight against corruption

United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon and Madam Ban Soon-taek arrived in Moscow from Kyiv on Thursday afternoon, 21 April. His first appointment was to visit a centre for children with disabilities. He discussed the global problem of disability, at a time when about 10 per cent of the world’s people live with a disability — whether it is physical, emotional or sensory.

United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon and Madam Ban Soon-taek arrived in Kyiv from Budapest in the morning of Tuesday, 19 April.

United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, accompanied by Madam Ban Soon-taek, arrived in Budapest from Prague in the early afternoon of Sunday, 17 April.