Statements and Messages

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

Following is UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s message, delivered by Mohamed Ibn Chambas, Special Representative of the Secretary-General and Head of the United Nations Office for West Africa (UNOWA), on the occasion of the fortieth anniversary of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS), in Abuja, today:

Following is a transcript of UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s press conference, held in New York today:

Following is UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s message on International Migrants Day, observed on 18 December:

Following is UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s message, delivered by Wu Hongbo, Under-Secretary-General for Economic and Social Affairs, to the second World Internet Conference, in Wuzhen, China, today:

Following is UN Secretary‑General Ban Ki‑moon’s message for International Human Solidarity Day, observed on 20 December:

Following are UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s remarks to the General Assembly on the outcome of the twenty-first Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (COP21), in New York today:

Following is UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s message to an event today in Birmingham, United Kingdom, marking the one-year anniversary of the attack on the Army Public School in Peshawar, Pakistan:

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

Following are UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s remarks to the General Assembly high-level meeting on the outcomes of the World Summit on the Information Society, in New York today: