Press Release

United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon flew on Friday, 8 May, from Kyiv, Ukraine, to Moscow, Russian Federation, to attend the celebration of “Victory Day”, marking the end of the Second World War.

Following is UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s message for the World Taekwondo Championships, held in Chelyabinsk, Russian Federation, 12 to 18 May:

United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon flew on Friday, 8 May, from Gdansk, Poland, to Kyiv, Ukraine, to attend the commemorations for the seventieth anniversary of the end of the Second World War.

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:

Following is the text of UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s video message for the International Centre for Not-for-Profit Law (ICNL) Global Forum, taking place in Stockholm from 10 to 12 May:

United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon and Madam Ban Soon-taek arrived in Paris from Rome on Tuesday afternoon, 28 April.

At its fifty-fourth meeting, on 8 May 2015, the Security Council Working Group on Children and Armed Conflict agreed, in connection with the examination of the first report of the Secretary-General on children and armed conflict in South Sudan (S/2014/884), to address the following message to all parties to the armed conflict in South Sudan, in particular the SPLA, the SPLA-IO and armed groups operating in their support such as the White Army, through a public statement by the Chair of the Working Group:

United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, accompanied by Madam Ban Soon-taek, departed New York on Sunday, 26 April.  They arrived in Rome at midday the following day.

Following is the text of UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s video message to the G7 Stakeholder Conference on Climate Risk Insurance, held in Berlin today: