Travel

United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon left Alpbach, Austria, early on Tuesday, 7 September, by Austrian military helicopter and flew to Munich, from where he flew to Kigali, Rwanda, via Brussels.

United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, accompanied by Madam Ban Soon-taek, arrived in Vienna, Austria, in the morning of Thursday, 2 September, after a flight from Altenrhein, St. Gallen airport in Switzerland. They had driven there from Liechtenstein earlier that morning.

United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, accompanied by Madam Ban Soon-taek, arrived in Zurich on the morning of 1 September after an overnight flight from New York. They then flew by Swiss military helicopter to Liechtenstein, where their first engagement was a lunch hosted by Foreign Minister Aurelia Frick.

United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon arrived in Islamabad on the morning of 15 August, after a flight from New York and a brief overnight stop in Dubai. The Secretary-General was accompanied and briefed by Interior Minister Rehman Malik on the flight from Dubai and was met on arrival in Islamabad by Foreign Minister Makhdoom Shah Mahmood Qureshi and other Pakistani officials, as well as members of the United Nations country team.

United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, accompanied by Madam Ban Soon-taek, arrived in Tokyo from New York in the afternoon of Tuesday, 3 August, to be in Japan for the sixty-fifth anniversary of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

On Monday, 19 July, UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon left Geneva to travel to Afghanistan, to co-chair the International Conference on Afghanistan with President Hamid Karzai, which would take place the following day. As the Secretary-General noted, the Tuesday meeting was the first international conference on Afghanistan to be held in the country, organized by the Afghan Government for the Afghan people.

The Secretary-General arrived in Geneva on Sunday, 18 July. That afternoon, he visited the League of Nations Museum, at the Palais des Nations. The following day, he held a breakfast meeting with the heads of the United Nations organizations based in Geneva.

Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon arrived in Madrid, Spain, on Friday, 16 July, in the morning, to attend the first meeting of the Millennium Development Goals Advocacy Group, which he had recently launched.

United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon arrived in Montego Bay, Jamaica, on 4 July with his wife Ban Soon-taek, becoming the first Secretary-General to attend a meeting of the Heads of Government of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM).

United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon arrived in Libreville, Gabon, late on Wednesday, 30 June, from Kinshasa in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. On the morning of 1 July, the Secretary-General met with President Ali Bongo Ondimba.