Statements and Messages

Following is UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s message on the International Day of Peace, to be observed on 21 September:

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

Following are UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s remarks, as prepared for delivery, at the International Day of Peace Student Observance, in New York today:

Following are UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s remarks at the appointment ceremony of Nadia Murad Basee Taha as United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) Goodwill Ambassador for the Dignity of Survivors of Human Trafficking, in New York today:

Following are UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s remarks to the General Assembly, as prepared for delivery, on the death of Islam Karimov, President of Uzbekistan, in New York today:

Following are UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s remarks at the Peace Bell Ceremony to commemorate the International Day of Peace, in New York today:

Following is UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s message for the International Day for the Preservation of the Ozone Layer, observed on 16 September:

Following are UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s remarks to the Security Council on the situation in the Middle East, including the Palestinian question, in New York today:

Following is UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s message, delivered by Michael Møller, Director-General of the United Nations Office at Geneva, to the Conference “Europe Whole, Free and at Peace-2040” and on the occasion of the twenty-fifth anniversary of Lithuania’s membership in the United Nations, in Vilnius today:

Following is the text of UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s video message to the Inclusion Summit of the Rio 2016 Paralympic Games, taking place in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, from 15 to 16 September: