Following is UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s message for World Tourism Day, observed on 27 September:

Following is UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s message on World Habitat Day, to be observed on 3 October:

Following is UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s message, delivered by Kassym-Jomart Tokayev, Director-General of the United Nations Office at Geneva, for the International Day of Democracy and the opening of “The Doers of Democracy”, a photo exhibition featuring projects of the United Nations Democracy Fund, in Geneva on 15 September:

Following are UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s remarks at the Peace Bell Ceremony, today, 15 September, in New York:

Following are UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s remarks to the International Day of Peace Observance with Kyung Hee University, 14 September, in New York:

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

Following is UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s message for the International Day of Peace, to be observed on 21 September:

Following are UN Deputy Secretary-General Asha-Rose Migiro’s remarks at the General Assembly event marking the International Day against Nuclear Tests, held in New York on 2 September:

Stressing that the voluntary moratoriums of nuclear-weapon States were no substitute for a legal prohibition, Deputy Secretary-General Asha-Rose Migiro today urged Governments that had not yet done so to sign and ratify the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty and bolster other efforts to create a world free of nuclear testing and nuclear weapons.

Following is UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s message for International Literacy Day, to be observed on 8 September: