Following is UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s message, as delivered by Mohamed ibn Chambas, Special Representative of the Secretary-General and Head of the United Nations Office for West Africa (UNOWA), to the Forty-Seventh Ordinary Summit of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS), in Accra today:
Following are UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s remarks at the World Education Forum “Sustainable Development Goals and Education”, in Incheon, Republic of Korea, today:
Following are UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s remarks, as prepared for delivery, at the Global Compact Network Republic of Korea, in Seoul today:
Following are UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s remarks to the Asia Leadership Forum: New Power for Opening the Future of the Korean Peninsula, in Seoul today:
On 18 May 2015, the Security Council Committee pursuant to resolutions 1267 (1999) and 1989 (2011) concerning Al-Qaida and associated individuals and entities removed the name below from the Al-Qaida Sanctions List after concluding its consideration of the delisting requests for this name submitted through the Office of the Ombudsperson established pursuant to Security Council resolution 1904 (2009), and after considering the Comprehensive Report of the Ombudsperson on this delisting request.
On Friday afternoon, 15 May, United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, accompanied by Madam Ban Soon-taek, travelled to the University of Maryland at College Park, where he met with a group of students from the School of Public Policy, which is led by Dean Robert Orr.
The Secretary-General arrived today in Seoul, in the Republic of Korea, where he told reporters that during his visit he will hold talks with President Park Geun-hye and other senior officials on development, climate change and regional concerns.
Following is UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s message to the High-Level Meeting on South-South and Triangular Cooperation, taking place in Dhaka, Bangladesh, 17-18 May:
The following statement was issued today by the Spokesman for UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon:
The Forum on Forests approved a wide-ranging omnibus resolution this evening, which would have the Economic and Social Council extend until 2030 the International Arrangement of actors involved in the management, conservation and sustainable development of the world’s woodlands, and lay out — for the first time — the main objectives of such work for the coming decades.
