Travel

United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon and Madam Ban Soon-taek arrived late on Wednesday, 31 January, in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, from Nairobi, Kenya.  From Amsterdam, he immediately travelled to The Hague.

United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, accompanied by his wife Ban Soon-taek, arrived in Nairobi, Kenya from Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, on Tuesday afternoon, 30 January.  They immediately visited Kibera, one of the largest slums in Africa.

On Sunday evening, 28 January, United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, accompanied by his wife, Madam Ban Soon-taek, arrived in Addis Ababa from Kisangani in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, on the eve of the opening of the African Union Summit in the Ethiopian capital.

In the early morning of Saturday, 27 January, Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, accompanied by his wife, Madam Ban Soon-taek, arrived in Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of the Congo, from Paris, France, following refuelling stops in Cairo, Egypt and Entebbe, Uganda.

United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon arrived in Paris from Brussels in the evening of Wednesday, 24 January.

United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon began his travels to Europe and Africa early on Wednesday, 24 January, when he arrived in Brussels, where he held a series of meetings with key officials of the European Union, NATO and the Belgian Government.

United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon travelled to Washington, D.C., in the morning of Tuesday, 16 January.

United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan travelled to Washington, D.C., on Friday morning, 15 December, where he attended a farewell luncheon held in his honour, hosted by United States Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice at the State Department.

United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan travelled to Independence, Missouri, early on Monday, 11 December, to deliver his last speech as Secretary-General to an American audience, at the Truman Presidential Museum and Library.

United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan arrived in Geneva in the late afternoon of Friday, 17 November, on the last leg of a four-nation visit that has taken him to Turkey, Kenya and Ethiopia.