Statements and Messages

Following is the text of UN Secretary‑General Ban Ki‑moon’s video message for the sixtieth anniversary of the Hospitality Committee for United Nations Delegations, in New York today:

Following are UN Secretary‑General Ban Ki‑moon’s remarks, as prepared for delivery, on the centenary of the First World War “Christmas Truce”, in New York today:

Following are UN Secretary‑General Ban Ki‑moon’s remarks at the Economic and Social Council meeting on Ebola: a threat to sustainable development, in New York today:

Following is UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s message, as delivered by Abdoulaye Bathily, Special Representative of the Secretary-General and Head of the United Nations Regional Office for Central Africa (UNOCA), to the Thirty-Ninth Ministerial Meeting of the United Nations Standing Advisory Committee on Security Questions in Central Africa, held in Bujumbura, on 4 December:

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 message, as delivered by Michael Møller, Acting Director-General, United Nations Office at Geneva, at the Ministerial Council of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE), held in Basel, Switzerland, from 4 to 5 December:

Following are UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s remarks to the General Assembly on the Synthesis Report on the Post-2015 Development Agenda, in New York, on 4 December:

Following is UN Secretary‑General Ban Ki‑moon’s message for World Soil Day and the launch of the International Year of Soils, to be observed on 5 December:

Following is the text of UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s video message to the High-level International Conference on the Destruction of Heritage and Cultural Diversity in Iraq and Syria, in Paris on 3 December:

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