27 January 2009

Secretary-GeneralSG/2148 DEV/2730

Department of Public Information • News and Media Division • New York

SECRETARY-GENERAL, SPAIN’S PRIME MINISTER ISSUE JOINT STATEMENT

 

FOLLOWING FOOD SECURITY MEETING IN MADRID

 

With the Ebola virus claiming the lives of 200 people each day, most of them women, world leaders at a high-level Headquarters meeting Thursday implored the international community to swiftly ramp up the response to the epidemic ravaging West Africa before it turned into a humanitarian catastrophe.

On 26 September 2014, the United Nations Secretary-General convened a high-level meeting on the Central African Republic.

The ASEAN [Association of South-East Asian Nations] foreign ministers, United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon and the President of the sixty-ninth session of the United Nations General Assembly, Sam Kahamba Kutesa, today welcomed the progress made in cementing the partnership between ASEAN and the United Nations.

On 27 September, the United Nations convened a high-level meeting on the Malian political process on the margins of the general debate of the United Nations General Assembly. Opened by the Secretary-General of the United Nations, Ban Ki-moon, and by the President of Mali, Ibrahim Boubacar Keïta, the event gathered the members of the inter-Malian inclusive dialogue mediation team and of the Security Council to discuss the Malian political process.

The following joint statement by UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon and United States Secretary of State John Kerry was issued today:

A High-Level Meeting on the Sahel took place in New York on 26 September 2012, at the invitation of the Secretary-General of the United Nations, Mr. Ban Ki-moon. Member States of the United Nations and representatives of regional and international organizations participated in the meeting.

The following communiqué on the Secretary-General’s Mini-Summit on Somalia was issued on 26 September:

On 27 September 2012, I convened a high-level meeting on eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). The meeting was an opportunity for key stakeholders to contribute to national, regional and international efforts aimed at finding a peaceful and sustainable resolution to the crisis in eastern DRC.