Following is UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s message for the International Day of United Nations Peacekeepers, observed on 29 May:

Following is UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s message for Africa Day, observed on 25 May:

The International Day of United Nations Peacekeepers will be observed on Friday, 29 May, marking the seventh successive year in which the Organization will honour more than 100 “blue helmets” who lost their lives the previous year while serving the cause of peace.  Commemorative activities will be held at United Nations Headquarters in New York, and at peacekeeping operations and offices around the world.

Following is UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s message for the International Day for Biological Diversity, observed 22 May:

Following is UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s message for the International Day to End Obstetric Fistula, observed on 23 May:

Following is UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s message for World Telecommunication and Information Society Day, observed on 17 May:

Following is UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s message on the International Day of Families, observed on 15 May:

Following is the joint message from UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, Irina Bokova, Director-General of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), and Zeid Ra’ad al Hussein, United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, for World Press Freedom Day, observed today:

Following are UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s remarks at the International Jazz Day Concert, held in Paris on 30 April:

The following is UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s message for World Press Freedom Day, observed on 3 May: