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

Following is UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s message for World Youth Skills Day, observed on 15 July:

UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon and Madam Ban Soon-taek flew on Sunday, 5 July, from New York to Oslo, Norway, to participate in the Global Launch of the Millennium Development Goals Report 2015 and the Oslo Summit on Education for Development.

The Secretary-General attended the opening of the Third Financing for Development Conference in Addis Ababa today, urging world leaders and ministers to agree on an outcome commensurate in ambition with the sustainable development goals and calling on them to exercise flexibility and compromise and to overcome narrow self-interest in favour of working together for the common well-being for humanity.

Following are UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s remarks at the “Every woman, every child” launch of the Global Financing Facility, in Addis Ababa today:

The Independent Audit Advisory Committee (IAAC) of the United Nations held its thirty-first session from 8 to 10 July.

Following are UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s remarks at the event on financing sustainable energy for all, in Addis Ababa on 13 July:

ADDIS ABABA, 13 July — Opening the Third International Conference on Financing for Development in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, this morning, United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon called on the senior national and international officials assembled to together forge a framework for a “sustainable world free of poverty”.

Following are UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s remarks, as prepared for delivery, at the World Bank event “Billions to Trillions — Ideas to Action”, in Addis Ababa today:

Following are UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s remarks, as delivered, at the opening of Third International Conference on Financing for Development, in Addis Ababa today: