Development

Following are UN Secretary-General António Guterres’ remarks at the Group of 77 handover ceremony in New York today:

Following is UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s message on the report of the High-Level Commission on Health Employment and Economic Growth, in New York today:

Following are UN Deputy Secretary-General Jan Eliasson’s remarks, as prepared for delivery, at the International Migrant Day and Global Migration Film Festival Event, in New York, today:

Following is UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s message for International Migrants Day, observed on 18 December:

Following is the text of UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s video message for “Giving Tuesday”, in New York today:

Following is UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s message on the report of the High-level Panel on Access to Medicines — “Promoting Innovation and Access to Health Technologies”, in New York today:

United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today announced the appointment of Mourad Wahba of Egypt as Assistant Administrator and Director of the Regional Bureau for Arab States at the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP).

At a United Nations pledging conference today, 24 countries committed to provide approximately $1.09 billion towards development activities.  The amount represented an increase of more than of fourteen-fold over those commitments made in 2015.

Following is the text of UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s video message to the Committee on Food Security, in Rome today:

Following is UN Deputy Secretary-General Jan Eliasson’s briefing to Member States on the new approach to cholera in Haiti, in New York today: