The Secretary-General’s Special Envoy for Yemen, Ismail Ould Cheikh Ahmed, has welcomed the start of a cessation of hostilities that began at midnight on 10 April.  He urges all parties to ensure that the cessation of hostilities creates an environment conducive to the peace talks set to resume in Kuwait on 18 April.

Following are UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s remarks at the opening of the forty-ninth session of the Commission on Population and Development, in New York today:

Following are UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s remarks at the “United Nations Peace Operations Review:  Taking stock, Leveraging Opportunities and Charting the Way Forward” event, in New York today:

The Secretary-General, opening the high-level segment of the Geneva Conference on Violent Extremism, stressed the importance of preventing the transnational threat through urgent international cooperation that examines the root causes, including human rights abuses, exclusion and lack of opportunities for young people.

Following are UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon’s remarks at the Geneva Conference on Preventing Violent Extremism, today:

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 Columbia University School of International Public Affairs’ (SIPA) Global Leadership Awards, in New York today:

United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, accompanied by Madam Ban Soon-taek, flew on Wednesday, 30 March, from Geneva, Switzerland, to Stockholm, Sweden, to deliver the Dag Hammarskjöld Lecture.

United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, accompanied by Madam Ban Soon-taek, flew on Tuesday, 29 March, from Tunis, Tunisia, to Geneva, Switzerland, to participate in the high-level meeting on Global Responsibility Sharing for Syrian Refugees.

United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, accompanied by Madam Ban Soon-taek, flew on Saturday, 28 March, from Amman, Jordan, to Tunis, Tunisia, for a joint visit with Jim Yong Kim, President of the World Bank Group.