United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, his wife Ban Soon-taek and the United Nations delegation arrived in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt, in the evening of Sunday, 1 March.

INTERNATIONAL SEMINAR ON ASSISTANCE TO PALESTINIAN PEOPLE CONCLUDES IN CAIRO

(Received from a UN Information Officer.)

United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon and Madam Ban Soon-taek arrived in Johannesburg in the late afternoon of Tuesday, 24 February, on his first official visit to South Africa.

SECRETARY-GENERAL, NEW UNITED STATES PRESIDENT AGREE ON WIDE RANGE

 

OF ISSUES IN FIRST OFFICIAL MEETING

 

On Saturday, 28 February, United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon arrived in north-eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo.  He was welcomed at the Kisangani airport by Congolese provincial and national officials in the presence of the senior leadership of the United Nations Organization Mission in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (MONUC).

Commission on the Status of Women

Fifty-third Session

11^th & 12^th Meetings (AM & PM)

UNITED NATIONS INTERNATIONAL SEMINAR ON ASSISTANCE

 

TO PALESTINIAN PEOPLE OPENS IN CAIRO

 

Participants Assess Needs in Gaza Strip, Look at Way Forward

(Received from a UN Information Officer.)

JOINT COMMUNIQUÉ BY SECRETARY-GENERAL, PRESIDENT OF HAITI

 

Following is the text of the joint communiqué issued by UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon and President René Préval of Haiti, in Port-au-Prince on 9 March:

WOMEN HOLD KEYS TO UNLOCKING BARRIERS AGAINST PROGRESS ON SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT,

DEPUTY SECRETARY-GENERAL TELLS INTERNATIONAL LEADERSHIP COLLOQUIUM

VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN ‘CANNOT BE TOLERATED’ IN ANY CIRCUMSTANCE, BY ANY POLITICAL

LEADER OR GOVERNMENT, SAYS SECRETARY-GENERAL, AT NEW YORK OBSERVANCE

 

Following are UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s remarks on International Women’s Day in New York, 5 March: