Travel

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.

United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon and Madam Ban Soon-taek arrived in Addis Ababa at noon on Wednesday, 30 January.

United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon and Madam Ban Soon-taek arrived in Rwanda in the evening of Monday, 28 January.

United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon and Madam Ban Soon-taek arrived in Bratislava in the morning of Sunday, 27 January.  They first visited the United Nations regional centre, where the Secretary-General met with heads of United Nations agencies and held a town hall meeting with the staff. 

United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon and Madam Ban Soon-taek arrived in Ljubljana in the evening of Friday, 25 January.

United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, on his first mission abroad in 2008, arrived in Madrid early on Tuesday morning, 15 January, where he opened the first ever Alliance of Civilizations Forum.

United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon arrived in Algiers from Paris with a small delegation early on Tuesday, 18 December.  He was welcomed at the airport by Algeria’s Foreign Minister, Mourad Medelci, and made brief comments to the Algerian State media on the reasons for his visit.

United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon arrived in Paris on Sunday, 16 December.