Press Release

Following are UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s remarks, as prepared for delivery, at the Korea Society, in New York today:

Following is UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s message on the International Day to End Obstetric Fistula, observed on 23 May:

Following is UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s message, delivered by Taye-Brook Zerihoun, Assistant Secretary-General for Political Affairs, to the thirteenth General Meeting of Cooperation between the United Nations and the League of Arab States, in Geneva today:

Following is UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s message on the International Day of United Nations Peacekeepers, “Honouring Our Heroes”, observed on 29 May:

Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon will lead the inaugural ceremony to award the “Captain Mbaye Diagne Medal for Exceptional Courage” as the New York Headquarters observes the International Day of United Nations Peacekeepers on Thursday, 19 May.

Following is UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s message on the Day of Vesak, to be observed on 20 May:

Following is UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s message, delivered by Rachel Kyte, Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Sustainable Energy for All, to the seventeenth William G. Demas Memorial Lecture, in Montego Bay, Jamaica, today:

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

Yukio Takasu, Under-Secretary-General for Management, will officiate at a ribbon-cutting ceremony for the recently built United Nations Learning Centre for Multilingualism and Career Development, to be held at Headquarters at 10 a.m. on 23 May.

Following are UN Deputy Secretary-General Jan Eliasson’s remarks at the Habitat III Informal Hearings with local authorities associations, in New York today: