Statements and Messages

Following is UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s Message for World Tuberculosis Day on 24 March:

Following is UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s message for World Down Syndrome Day, to be observed on 21 March:

Following is UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s message on the Day for the Right to the Truth Concerning Gross Human Rights Violations and for the Dignity of Victims, observed 24 March:

Following is UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s message for World Water Day, to be observed on 22 March:

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

The following statement was issued today by the Spokesman for UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on intent of the United States to transition key Internet domain name functions:

Following is UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s message for the International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination, to be observed on 21 March:

Following is UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s message, as delivered by Kilaparti Ramakrishna, Director of the Subregional Office for East and North-East Asia of the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP) to the Asia-Pacific Association to International Education (APAIE): “Enhancing Cross-Border Education Cooperation with Universities in Asia-Pacific — from Past to Present and the Future”, in Seoul, 18 March:

Following is UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s message for the International Day of Happiness, to be observed on 20 March:

Following are UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s remarks, as prepared for delivery, at the Asia Week New York Reception, Metropolitan Museum of Art, in New York today: