Press Release

Following is the text of UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon’s remarks to the General Assembly during its thematic debate on human security, today, 20 May, in New York:

The following statement was issued today by the Spokesperson for UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon:

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

Following is UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s message to the twenty-sixth Ministerial Session of the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia (ESCWA), delivered by Bader Omar al Dafa, ESCWA Executive Secretary, in Beirut today, 19 May:

Following is UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s message for the official presentation of the Heidelberg Darfur Dialogue Outcome Document, delivered by Djibril Yipènè Bassolé, Joint African Union-United Nations Chief Mediator for Darfur, in Berlin, today, 19 May:

Following are UN Deputy Secretary-General Asha-Rose Migiro’s remarks to the international conference “Africa, an Opportunity for the World: Realities and Challenges”, in Yaoundé, today, 18 May:

In a message to open the Pacific Regional Seminar on the Implementation of the Second International Decade for the Eradication of Colonialism, United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon urged all involved to undertake “fresh and creative efforts” towards full implementation of decolonization.

Following is UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s message, delivered by Laura Vaccari, Chief of the Decolonization Unit, Department of Political Affairs, to the Pacific Regional Seminar on Implementation of the Second Decade for the Eradication of Colonialism, in Nouméa, New Caledonia, 18-20 May:

Following is UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s message for the International Peace Institute (IPI) Seminar on Peacemaking and Peacekeeping, delivered today by Alain Le Roy, Under-Secretary-General for Peacekeeping Operations, in Vienna:

Following is the text of UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s video message to the sixty-sixth session of the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific, in Incheon, today, 17 May: