Following is UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s message for International Widows’ Day, observed on 23 June:

Following is UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s message for United Nations Public Service Day, observed on 23 June:

Following is UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s message for the International Day in Support of Victims of Torture, observed on 26 June:

Following is the text of UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s message for World Refugee Day, to be observed 20 June:

Following is UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s message for the World Day to Combat Desertification, observed on 17 June:

Following is UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s message for World Oceans Day, to be observed on 8 June:

Following is UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s message for World Environment Day, to be observed on 5 June:

Following are Deputy Secretary-General Asha-Rose Migiro’s remarks at a wreath-laying ceremony to mark International Day of United Nations Peacekeepers, in Jerusalem, 29 May:

Following is UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s message to the special event on “Forging closer links between Africa and the Diaspora”, organized in New York by the Office of the Permanent Observer of the African Union, and delivered by B. Lynn Pascoe, Under-Secretary-General for Political Affairs, on the occasion of Africa Day 2011, today, 31 May:

Following are UN Deputy Secretary-General Asha-Rose Migiro’s remarks yesterday in New York at the opening of an exhibition for the International Day of United Nations Peacekeepers, observed on 29 May: