Statements and Messages

Following is UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s message for World Elder Abuse Awareness Day, 15 June:

Following is UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s message on the World Day to Combat Desertification, which is observed 17 June:

The following statement was issued on 11 June by the Spokesperson for UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on the announcement by the Seoul Peace Prize Selection Committee on its selection of the Secretary-General as the 2012 winner:

Following is UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s message, as delivered byMaher Nasser, Acting Head, Department of Public Information, to the International Media Seminar on Peace in the Middle East, in Geneva, 12 June:

The following statement was issued on 11 June by the Spokesperson for UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon:

Following are UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s remarks to the General Assembly meeting on HIV/AIDS, in New York, 11 June:

Following are UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s remarks, as delivered by Navid Hanif, Director, Office of Economic and Social Council Support and Coordination, Department of Economic and Social Affairs, at the opening of the retreat on the 2012 Quadrennial Comprehensive Policy Review of United Nations Operational Activities for Development, in Tarrytown, New York, 8 June:

Following are UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s welcoming remarks at the round table panel discussion “The United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea at 30”, in New York, 8 June:

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

Following are UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s remarks to the General Assembly on the situation in Syria, today, 7 June, in New York: