Press Release

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

Following is UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s message, delivered by Wu Hongbo, Under-Secretary-General for Economic and Social Affairs, to the first-ever World Conference on Tourism for Development:  “Tourism for Peace and Development”, in Beijing today:

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

Following are UN Deputy Secretary-General Jan Eliasson’s remarks at an event on migrants, refugees and cities, in New York today:

Following is UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s message, delivered by Sahle-Work Zewde, Director-General of the United Nations Office at Nairobi, on the occasion of the valedictory ceremony for judges of the United Nations Dispute Tribunal, in Nairobi today:

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 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: