Statements and Messages

Following is UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s message for World No Tobacco Day, observed 31 May:

Following are UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s remarks at the Dag Hammarskjöld Medal Ceremony marking the International Day of United Nations Peacekeepers, in New York today:

Following are UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s remarks at a wreath-laying ceremony for the International Day of United Nations Peacekeepers, in New York today:

Following are UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s message for World Environment Day, observed on 5 June:

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 upon receiving an honorary degree from the Catholic University of Leuven, in Leuven, Belgium today:

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, as prepared for delivery, at the “Our World, Our Dignity, Our Planet:  the Post-2015 Agenda and the Role of Youth” event at Palais des Beaux Arts, in Brussels, today:

Following is UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s message, delivered by Ján Kubiš, his Special Representative for Iraq, to the forty-second session of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) Council of Foreign Ministers, in Kuwait City today:

Following are UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s remarks at the event for the “Tomorrowland” music festival, in Brussels today: