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United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon arrived in Guatemala City, Guatemala, on Tuesday night, 15 March. The visit to Guatemala was his first since becoming Secretary-General.

United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon arrived in Washington, D.C., at midday Monday, 28 February. His first appointment was a meeting with President Barack Obama at the White House. They discussed the need for an immediate end to the violence in Libya, the Middle East, North Africa, Côte d’Ivoire and Sudan, as well as United Nations reform, sustainable development and climate change.

United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon arrived in Lima, Peru, on Monday night, 14 February, following an official visit to Ecuador. The visit to Peru was the first made by Mr. Ban since becoming Secretary-General.

United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon arrived in Quito, Ecuador, on Sunday, 13 February, in his first visit to the country.

United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, accompanied by Madam Ban Soon‑taek, arrived in Berlin in the early evening of Thursday, 3 February.

United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, accompanied by Madam Ban Soon-taek, arrived in London from Addis Ababa on Wednesday, 2 February. He met that day with David Cameron, the Prime Minister, and other United Kingdom dignitaries.

United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, accompanied by Madam Ban Soon‑taek, arrived in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, on Saturday evening, 29 January. Upon his arrival, the Secretary-General met with a delegation of the Economic Commission of West African States (ECOWAS), comprising Henry Ajumogobia, Foreign Minister of Nigeria, and James Victor Gbeho, President of the ECOWAS Commission.

United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon arrived in Geneva, Switzerland, in the morning of Tuesday, 25 January, accompanied by Madam Ban Soon-taek.

United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, accompanied by Madam Ban Soon‑taek, arrived in Muscat, Oman, during the night of 18 January.

United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, accompanied by Madam Ban Soon-taek, arrived in Abu Dhabi, in the United Arab Emirates, in the evening of 16 January. They were the guests a few hours later of Sultan Ahmed Al Jaber, Chief Executive Officer of the Masdar Corporation and Deputy Foreign Minister of the United Arab Emirates, at a dinner in their honour.