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.
Following is the text of UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s video message to the Sustainable Energy for All Advisory Board meeting, held in New York today:
Following is UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s message, as delivered by Josiane Ambiehl, Chief of the Decolonization Unit, Department of Political Affairs, for the opening session of the Caribbean Regional Seminar on the Implementation of the third International Decade for the Eradication of Colonialism: the United Nations at 70 — taking stock of the decolonization agenda, in Managua today:
Following is UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s message, as delivered by Vladimir Ryabinin, Executive Secretary of the Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission and Assistant Director General of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, at the Inauguration of the new campus at the World Maritime University, in Malmö, Sweden, today:
