Following is the text of UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s video message at the thirty-sixth session of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC), in Mexico City today:
Following is the text of UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s video message on the occasion of the fifth meeting of his Scientific Advisory Board, in Trieste, Italy, on 24 and 25 May:
United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, accompanied by his wife Ban Soon-taek, arrived in Antananarivo, Madagascar, from Mauritius on Tuesday afternoon, 10 May, where they were greeted by the President, Hery Martial Rajaonarimampianina Rakotoarimanana.
Following are UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s remarks, as prepared for delivery, to the closing ceremony of the World Humanitarian Summit, in Istanbul today:
Delegates called for a more detailed picture of funding needed by the Secretariat to help implement the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and the Addis Ababa Action Agenda, as the Fifth Committee (Administrative and Budgetary) considered the Secretary-General’s report on the subject.
United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, accompanied by Madam Ban Soon-taek, arrived in Port-Louis, Mauritius, from the Seychelles, in the late afternoon of Sunday, 8 May.
United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, accompanied by his wife Ban Soon-taek, arrived in Victoria, Seychelles, from Washington, D.C., on Saturday morning, 7 May. This was the first time a Secretary-General visited the country.
The United Nations Independent Investigation in Burundi has completed the deployment of a team of human rights monitors on the ground set up by the Human Rights Council to investigate human rights violations in the country since April 2015.
The following statement was issued today by the Spokesman for UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon:
Following are UN Deputy Secretary-General Jan Eliasson’s remarks, as prepared for delivery, to the World Humanitarian Summit event on the Good Humanitarian Donorship initiative, in Istanbul today:
