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

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

United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon and Madam Ban Soon-taek arrived in Calgary from San Francisco at midday on Friday, 12 August.

United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, accompanied by Madam Ban Soon-taek, arrived in Los Angeles from Argentina on Wednesday morning, 10 August.

Late on Sunday, 7 August, United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, accompanied by Madam Ban Soon-taek, arrived in Argentina by car from Brazil at Iguazú.  After visiting the Iguazú Falls from the Argentine side, he travelled onwards by air to Buenos Aires.

United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon arrived in Rio de Janeiro from New York, having transited through Buenos Aires, on Thursday morning, 4 August.

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

The United Nations Mission in the Republic of South Sudan (UNMISS) reports that the situation in Juba remains calm but tense.  Peacekeepers maintain a proactive posture to re-establish a secure environment outside of the Protection of Civilians sites in the capital, following fighting last month. Tensions persist in Yei, in Central Equatoria region.

The United Nations Department of Public Information joins the American Library Association, Fox Searchlight Pictures and BazanED in a nationwide knowledge- and community-building initiative to examine the lasting effects of the injustices of the transatlantic slave trade.

The Secretary-General this morning addressed a Security Council meeting on the non-proliferation of weapons of mass destruction.  He called on all States to focus on what he called one overriding truth:  the only way to prevent the human, environmental and existential destruction these weapons can cause is by eradicating them once and for all.