SECRETARY-GENERAL, IN MESSAGE, URGES STEPS AGAINST GLOBAL MENACE OF CORRUPTION;

ISSUE ‘AFFECTS US ALL’ BY WEAKENING DEMOCRACY, UNDERMINING RULE OF LAW

Following is Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s message on International Anti-Corruption Day, observed 9 December:

SECRETARY-GENERAL, AT HEADQUARTERS CONFERENCE, APPEALS FOR GENEROUS CONTRIBUTIONS

TO EMERGENCY RESPONSE FUND, SAYING ‘THERE ARE MILLIONS OF LIVES AT STAKE’

UN, ORGANIZATION FOR SECURITY AND COOPERATION IN EUROPE ‘GOOD, STRONG PARTNERS’,

 

SAYS SECRETARY-GENERAL IN MESSAGE TO HELSINKI MEETING

 

SECRETARY-GENERAL URGES PARTIES TO BURUNDI CEASEFIRE AGREEMENT TO SUMMON ‘POLITICAL

WILL AND COURAGE’ TO OVERCOME OUTSTANDING ISSUES, IN MESSAGE TO REGIONAL SUMMIT

SECRETARY-GENERAL APPLAUDS SIGNATORY COUNTRIES TO CLUSTER MUNITIONS CONVENTION,

LOOKS FORWARD TO EARLY ENTRY INTO FORCE, AS OSLO CONFERENCE CONCLUDES

 

SECRETARY-GENERAL COMMENDS COURAGEOUS ‘ROOTS OF PEACE’ ORGANIZATION FOR LEADERSHIP

IN EFFORTS ‘TO REPLACE THE DETRITUS OF WAR WITH THE FRUITS OF PEACE’

Following is UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s message for the Roots of Peace “Harvest of Hope” gala in Washington, D.C., 3 December:

SECRETARY-GENERAL, ON INTERNATIONAL DAY, SAYS UN REMAINS COMMITTED TO PROMOTING

ACCESSIBILITY -- DIGITAL, POLITICAL, PHYSICAL -- FOR PERSONS WITH DISABILITIES

SIGNING OF CLUSTER MUNITIONS CONVENTION MARKS MAJOR STEP FORWARD IN GLOBAL EFFORTS

TO CONTROL NOXIOUS SPREAD OF DEADLY, INHUMANE WEAPONS, SAYS SECRETARY-GENERAL

MIDDLE EAST PEACE CAN, AND MUST, BE PROMOTED NOT ONLY AT POLITICAL LEVEL,

BUT AT GRASS ROOTS, SAYS SECRETARY-GENERAL IN MESSAGE TO VIENNA SEMINAR

 

‘URGENT CHALLENGE’ FOR ASIA -– TO FOSTER ECONOMIC GROWTH, WHILE MINIMIZING IMPACT

ON CLIMATE CHANGE, SAYS SECRETARY-GENERAL, IN MESSAGE TO HONG KONG MEETING

 

Following is the text of UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s video message to the Clinton Global Initiative in Hong Kong, 2 December: