United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, following consultations with the Chairpersons of the regional groups of Member States, has informed the General Assembly of his intention to appoint Erik Solheim of Norway as the new Executive Director of the United Nations Environment Programme.
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Following are UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s remarks to the Security Council meeting on health care in armed conflict, in New York today:
Following are UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s remarks to the award ceremony for the United Nations Poster for Peace contest, in New York on 3 May:
Following is the text of UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s video message to the World Summit on the Information Society Forum 2016, in Geneva today:
United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has started the process of consultation with the Conference of Parties through its Bureau, and has informed of his intention to appoint Patricia Espinosa Cantellano of Mexico as Executive Secretary of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change.
Following is UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s message, as delivered by Lise Kingo, Executive Director of the Global Compact, to the 2016 Business for Peace Summit honouree dinner, in Oslo, today:
Following are UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s remarks at the Tribeca Film Festival reception for the screening of Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon 2, in New York today:
United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, accompanied by Madam Ban Soon-taek, arrived in Vienna on the afternoon of Tuesday, 26 April, after an overnight flight from New York to London and an onward flight to Austria.
The following statement was issued today by the Spokesman for UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon:
Following are UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s remarks upon receiving the “Spirit of Helen Keller Award” from Helen Keller International, in New York today: