Statements and Messages

Following is UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon’s message for World Maritime Day, to be observed on 26 September:

Following is UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon’s message, as delivered by Assistant Secretary-General Luc Gnacadja, Executive Secretary of the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification, to the eleventh Conference of Parties, held in Windhoek, Namibia, on 23 September:

Following are UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s remarks to the second meeting of the regional oversight mechanisms (11+4) of the Peace and Security Cooperation Framework for the Democratic Republic of the Congo and the Region, in New York, 23 September:

Following are UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s remarks to the African Union Peace and Security Council meeting on United Nations-Africa Union cooperation, in New York on 23 September:

Following are UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s remarks at the ceremony for the unveiling of the winning design for the permanent memorial to the victims of slavery and the transatlantic slave trade, in New York on 23 September:

Following is UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s welcome address at the opening session of “MDG Success: Accelerating Action and Partnering for Impact”, in New York on 23 September:

The text of the Secretary-General’s remarks at the working breakfast for the Informal Ministerial Consultations of la Francophonie: High-level Dialogue, on 23 September is not available in English.

Following are UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s remarks at the High-level Forum on Accelerating MDG-5, in New York on 23 September:

Following is UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s message, as delivered by Haile Menkerios, Special Envoy of the Secretary-General for Sudan and South Sudan, to the African Union Peace and Security Council Meeting on United Nations-African Union cooperation segment on Sudan-South Sudan relations, in New York, 23 September:

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