Travel

United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon and Madam Ban Soon-taek travelled from Accra, Ghana, to Monrovia, Liberia in the afternoon of Monday, 21 April.

United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, accompanied by his wife, Ban Soon-taek, arrived in Accra, Ghana, late in the evening of Saturday, 19 April, at the beginning of a visit to West Africa that would also take him to Liberia, Burkina Faso and Côte d’Ivoire.

United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon and Madam Ban Soon-taek arrived in Moscow in the morning of Wednesday, 9 April, for the first official visit of the Secretary-General to the Russian Federation.

United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon arrived on Wednesday, 2 April, in Bucharest, Romania, where he met shortly upon arrival with the Secretary-General of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), Jaap de Hoop Scheffer.  They discussed Afghanistan, Kosovo and cooperation between the United Nations and NATO. 

United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon arrived in Dakar, Senegal, in the morning of Wednesday, 12 March, to attend the eleventh Summit of the Organization of the Islamic Conference.

United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon arrived in Geneva in the morning of Monday, 3 March, where he delivered a statement at the opening of the seventh session of the Human Rights Council.  

United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon flew to College Station, Texas, in the afternoon of Friday, 29 February.

United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon arrived in Washington, D.C., early on Thursday, 14 February.

As part of his ongoing efforts to reach out to major American cities and citizens, United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon arrived on his first official trip to Chicago on Thursday morning, 7 February, where he held meetings at several local organizations.

United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon and Madam Ban Soon-taek arrived in Nairobi, Kenya, on Friday morning, 1 February, from Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.