Humanitarian issues

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

Following is the text of UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s video message to the event marking 15 years of the United Nations Institute for Training and Research (UNITAR) Operational Satellite Applications Programme (UNOSAT), in New York today:

Following is UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s message to the Baku International Humanitarian Forum, delivered by Cihan Sultanoglu, Assistant Administrator and Director, Regional Bureau for Europe and the CIS, United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), in Baku today:

Following is UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s message on World Habitat Day, observed on 3 October:

Following are UN Deputy Secretary-General Jan Eliasson’s remarks to the high-level event on the humanitarian crisis in the Lake Chad Basin, “A turning point?”, in New York, today:

Following are UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s remarks to the high-level event on the humanitarian situation in South Sudan, in New York today:

Following are UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s remarks to the high-level side event “Beyond the World Humanitarian Summit:  Advancing the Agenda for Humanity”, in New York today:

Following are UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s remarks at the High-Level Leaders’ Meeting on Refugees, in New York today:

Following are UN Deputy Secretary-General Jan Eliasson's remarks at the event marking World Humanitarian Day, in New York today:

Following are UN Deputy Secretary-General Jan Eliasson’s remarks at the annual memorial service in honour of fallen staff on the anniversary of the Canal Hotel bombing in Iraq, in New York today: