SG/SM/17055-REF/1211
The following statement was issued today by the Spokesman for UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon:
Refugees
SG/SM/17039-REF/1210
The following statement by UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon was issued today:
SG/A/1576-BIO/4733-REF/1208
United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon announced today the appointment of Kelly T. Clements of the United States as Deputy High Commissioner in the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR).
SG/SM/16788-REF/1207
Following are UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s remarks, as prepared for delivery, at a meeting with resettled refugees from Afghanistan, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Myanmar and Syria, in Farmleigh, Ireland, today:
SG/SM/16705-IHA/1366-REF/1206
Following are UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s remarks on board the Italian naval ship San Giusto in Sicily, Italy, today:
SG/A/1546-REF/1205
United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon announced today the appointments of George Okoth-Obbo of Uganda as Assistant High Commissioner for Operations and Volker Türk of Austria as Assistant High Commissioner for Protection in the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees.
SG/SM/16226-REF/1203
Following are UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s remarks to the sixty-fifth session of the Executive Committee of the High Commissioner’s Programme, in Geneva today:
SG/SM/14003-REF/1198
Following is the text of UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s video message, aired on 7 December, for the sixtieth anniversary of the 1951 Convention Relating to the Status of Refugees and the fiftieth anniversary of the 1961 Convention on the Reduction of Statelessness, held in Geneva, 6-7 December:
SG/A/1229-BIO/4182-REF/1194
United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has proposed to the General Assembly the re-election of António Manuel de Oliveira Guterres of Portugal as United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees for a further term of five years, effective 15 June.
SG/SM/12556-AFR/1901-REF/1193
Following is the text of UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s message, delivered by António Guterres, United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, to the African Union Special Summit of Heads of State and Government on Refugees, Returnees and Internally Displaced Persons in Africa, in Kampala today, 22 October: