Press Release

Following is UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s message on the International Day of Sport for Development and Peace, to be observed on 6 April:

United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, accompanied by Madam Ban Soon-taek, arrived in Baden-Baden, from Algiers, in the afternoon of Monday, 7 March.

Following is UN Deputy Secretary-General Jan Eliasson’s keynote statement at the 2016 Stockholm Forum on Security and Development: “Peace and Security and the Implementation of the 2030 Agenda in Conflict-affected Countries”, as prepared for delivery in Stockholm today:

United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon arrived in Nouakchott from Ouagadougou on Thursday evening, 3 March.  He was welcomed by Isselkou Ould Ahmed Izid Bih, Minister for Foreign Affairs.

United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon arrived in Madrid from Geneva in the early afternoon of Tuesday, 1 March.

Following is the text of UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s video message for the Pritzker Architecture Prize ceremony, in New York today:

NEW YORK, 4 April (United Nations Office for Disarmament Affairs) — Government arms-transfer controls experts from member States of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN), as well as representatives of various international institutes, non-governmental organizations and the United Nations, are meeting in Bangkok, Thailand, on 4-5 April, to exchange views and share experiences regarding their preparations for the future implementation of the principles and provisions of the Arms Trade Treaty, including implementation challenges.

Following are UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s opening remarks to Member States on preparations for the World Humanitarian Summit, today in New York:

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

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