Statements and Messages

Following are UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s remarks at the Special Event on Mobilizing to Achieve the Global Goals through the Elimination of Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) by 2030, in New York today:

Following is UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s message, delivered by Yuri Fedotov, Director-General of the United Nations Office in Vienna and Executive Director of the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime, to the Inter-Parliamentary Union hearing in New York today:

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 released today for the Chinese Lunar New Year:

Following are UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s remarks at the Park East Synagogue commemoration in memory of the victims of the Holocaust, in New York today:

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

Following is UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s address at event co-organized by the United Nations Association of the United Kingdom and Chatham House, in London today:

Following is UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s message for the International Day of Zero Tolerance for Female Genital Mutilation, observed on 6 February:

Following are UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s opening remarks to the Supporting Syria and the Region conference, in London today:

On Thursday evening, 28 January, United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, accompanied by Madam Ban Soon-taek, flew from New York to Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, to attend the twenty-sixth Africa Union Summit, whose theme was “2016: African Year of Human Rights with Particular Focus on the Rights of Women”.