SG/SM/13888-SC/10416-AFR/2268
This is the text of remarks by UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon in the Security Council today, at the outset of the Council’s meeting on “Peace and Security in Africa: Piracy in the Gulf of Guinea”:
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SG/SM/13885-REC/242
This is the text of remarks by UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today to the Executive Committee of the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (ECE) in Geneva:
SG/SM/13886
The following statement was issued today by the Spokesperson for UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon:
SG/T/2816
United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, accompanied by Madam Ban Soon‑taek, visited Switzerland on an official visit, arriving in Bern on Sunday, 16 October.
DSG/SM/582-DEV/2917
Following are the remarks by UN Deputy Secretary-General Asha-Rose Migiro to the Second High-Level Symposium on the Development Cooperation Forum, in Luxembourg today, 18 October:
SG/SM/13881-DEV/2915-OBV/1041
Following is UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s message for the International Day for the Eradication of Poverty, observed on 17 October:
DC/3308
The United Nations Office for Disarmament Affairs will organize a special event entitled “Transparency in the Global Arms Trade” at United Nations Headquarters on 18 October, accompanying the launch of a new, ground-breaking Web feature offering unprecedented insight into the global reported arms trade.
SG/T/2815
United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon accepted the invitation of United States President Barack Obama to attend a dinner on 13 October in Washington, D.C., in honour of President Lee Myung-bak of the Republic of Korea.
SG/SM/13880
Following is the statement by UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon to the 125th Assembly of the Inter-Parliamentary Union, in Bern, 17 October:
SG/SM/13883-DEV/2916
This is the text of the message from UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today to the Committee on World Food Security, in Rome, delivered by David Nabarro, Secretary-General’s Special Representative on Food Security and Nutrition: