Following is the text of UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s video message to the seventeeth Summit of Heads of State and Government of the Non-Aligned Movement, in Margarita Island, Venezuela, today:
Following is UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s remarks at the fifth Global Fund Replenishment Conference, in Montreal today:
United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, accompanied by Madam Ban Soon‑taek, left Singapore on Tuesday, 30 August, for Nay Pyi Taw, Myanmar.
United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, accompanied by Madam Ban Soon‑taek, left New York on Saturday, 27 September, for Singapore, where he arrived on Monday, 29 August, for an official visit.
The General Assembly adopted the New York Declaration for Refugees and Migrants today, thereby mapping a route towards a collective, rights-based response to record displacement numbers around the world.
Following are UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s remarks at the appointment ceremony of Nadia Murad Basee Taha as United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) Goodwill Ambassador for the Dignity of Survivors of Human Trafficking, in New York today:
Following is UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s message on the International Day of Peace, to be observed on 21 September:
Acting on the recommendations of its General Committee, the General Assembly this morning adopted the work programme and agenda for its seventy-first session, which contained 173 items, and endorsed the recommendation that its general debate be held from 20 to 24 September 2016.
The number of refugees fleeing violence in South Sudan has reached 1 million, according to the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), which says it needs $701 million in donations to sustain basic assistance to the needy.
Following are UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s remarks to the General Assembly, as prepared for delivery, on the death of Islam Karimov, President of Uzbekistan, in New York today:
