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:

Following are UN Deputy Secretary-General Asha-Rose Migiro’s remarks at the Dag Hammarskjöld Medal awards ceremony today, for the International Day of United Nations Peacekeepers in New York, to be observed on 29 May:

The ninth annual International Day of United Nations Peacekeepers will be observed on 29 May. It will be a particularly sombre occasion this year due to the loss of life in an attack on a United Nations compound in Afghanistan, a plane crash in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and in incidents and accidents elsewhere in recent months.

Following is UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s message for World No Tobacco Day, 31 May:

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

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

Following is UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s message for the World Day for Cultural Diversity for Dialogue and Development, observed 21 May:

The following is the text of 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 World Telecommunication and Information Society Day, to be observed on 17 May:

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