The following statement was issued today by the Spokesman for UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon:
MANAGUA, 19 May — Opening the Caribbean Regional Seminar on Decolonization today, United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon recalled that, since the birth of the United Nations 70 years ago, more than 80 nations once under colonial rule, with some 750 million inhabitants, were now sovereign Member States.
The following statement was issued today by the Spokesman for UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon:
Following are Secretary-General’s remarks at a special ceremony on receiving an Honorary Doctorate in women’s studies at Ewha University in Seoul today:
Following are UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s remarks at the opening of the Academic Impact Forum, in Seoul, Republic of Korea, today:
Following are UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s remarks at the Seoul Digital Forum, in Seoul, Republic of Korea, today:
With the Middle East facing a complicated and vicious tide of terror and extremism, it was even more critical for Israelis and Palestinians to negotiate a two-State solution and end actions that imperilled it, the incoming Special Coordinator for peace in the region told the Security Council this afternoon.
The Secretary-General announced today that he would visit the Kaesong Industrial complex in the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea on Thursday. It would be the first such visit by a United Nations Chief in more than 20 years. The Secretary-General pledged to do all he could to promote stability on the peninsula.
The Committee on the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People will convene the United Nations Round Table on Legal Aspects of the Question of Palestine, in The Hague from 20 to 22 May. The theme of the Round Table is “Available mechanisms to ensure accountability for violations of international law”.
Following the end of a political crisis that had gripped Somalia for four months, the process of building a federal State had regained momentum, the Special Representative of the Secretary-General told the Security Council today, stressing that overcoming the prevailing environment of mistrust, accumulated over 25 years, deserved sustained support.
