Development

Following is the text of UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s video message to the eighth Global Forum for Food and Agriculture, in Berlin today:

Following are UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s remarks, as prepared for delivery, at the United Nations Global Compact Board Meeting, in New York today:

Following are UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s remarks at the handover ceremony of the chairmanship of the “Group of 77” developing countries and China, in New York today:

Following are UN Deputy Secretary-General Jan Eliasson’s remarks at an event marking World Toilet Day, in New York today:

The following statement was issued today by the Spokesman for UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon:

In support of United Nations development activities, primarily covering 2015, 16 countries pledged approximately $77 million today at a Headquarters event.  The amount represented a dramatic decline in comparison to pledges in 2014 of $560 million.

Following is UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s message to the 100^th Anniversary of the Junior Chamber International World Congress, in Kanazawa, Japan, from 3-8 November:

United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon announced today the appointment of Tegegnework Gettu of Ethiopia as Under-Secretary-General and Associate Administrator of the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP).

Following is UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s message, delivered by Rana Flowers, United Nations Children’s Fund representative, to the fourth International Conference on Poverty Reduction and Early Child Development – “Investing in Early Child Development to Reduce Poverty and Improve Equality in Development”, held in Beijing from 21 to 24 October:

Following are UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s remarks at the third World Forum on Local Development, in Turin, Italy, today: