Press Release

United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, accompanied by Madam Ban Soon-taek, arrived in Geneva from New York on Sunday, 2 October.

United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon left Rome, Italy, on 6 October, for Hamburg, Germany, for the twentieth anniversary of the establishment of the Tribunal for the Law of the Sea.

Following are UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s remarks at the General Assembly plenary meeting on the appointment of the Secretary-General of the United Nations, in New York today:

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

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

United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, accompanied by Madam Ban Soon‑taek, travelled from Bern, Switzerland, to Strasbourg on Tuesday, 4 October, to attend a climate-related event at the European Parliament.

United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon left Hamburg, Germany, in the evening of Friday, 7 October, for Reykjavik to participate in the Assembly of the Arctic Circle, accompanied by Madam Ban Soon-taek.

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

Following is UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s message to the thirteenth Railway Sustainability Conference, in Vienna today:

Following is UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s message for World Food Day, observed on 16 October: