United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon and Madam Ban Soon-taek arrived in Johannesburg, South Africa, on the afternoon of Tuesday, 8 June, on the first leg of a trip that would also take them to Burundi, Cameroon, Benin and Sierra Leone. The trip would also bring them back to South Africa for the opening of the 2010 FIFA World Cup.
United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon arrived in Washington, D.C., in the evening of Sunday, 6 June, to attend the “Women Deliver” 2010 Conference on maternal health.
Immediately upon arrival at Entebbe International Airport in the afternoon of 30 May, United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, Madam Ban Soon-taek and their delegation went to Kampala’s Mandela National Stadium to take part in the closing ceremony for the War Victims Football Game.
United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon and his delegation arrived at Lilongwe International Airport in the morning of Saturday, 29 May, and, along with Madam Ban Soon-taek, he proceeded to the Lilongwe Civic Centre to sign the official guest book there.
United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, accompanied by Madam Ban Soon-taek, arrived in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, on the morning of Thursday, 27 May, after flying overnight from New York to attend the Alliance of Civilizations Forum, which was starting on Friday.
United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon arrived in Istanbul, Turkey, in the morning of Friday, 21 May, to hold bilateral talks with Turkish leaders and attend a major international conference on Somalia.
United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon arrived in Ottawa, Canada, on Wednesday, 12 May, in the morning, for his first official visit to the country. The Secretary-General first met Michaëlle Jean, the Governor-General of Canada, at her residence, Government House. They discussed the situation in Haiti, the Millennium Development Goals, including maternal and child health, women’s empowerment, as well as the situation in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon arrived from New York in Washington, D.C., on Monday, 12 April, to attend the Nuclear Security Summit chaired by United States President Barack Obama.
United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, accompanied by Madam Ban Soon-taek, arrived in Austria from a five-nation visit to Central Asian countries on Wednesday, 7 April.
United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, accompanied by Madam Ban Soon-taek, arrived in Semey, Kazakhstan, on Tuesday, 6 April, on the last leg of a week-long tour of Central Asia.
