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 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 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:

Following are UN Deputy Secretary-General Asha-Rose Migiro’s remarks in New York today at the wreath-laying ceremony in honour of fallen peacekeepers for the International Day of United Nations Peacekeepers, 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 World Day for Cultural Diversity for Dialogue and Development, observed 21 May:

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