Statements and Messages

The following statement was issued on 12 November by the Spokesperson for UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon:

Following is UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s message for Africa Industrialization Day, to be observed on 20 November:

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

Following is United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s message, delivered by Kassym-Jomart Tokayev, Director-General of the United Nations Office at Geneva, to the fourth Review Conference of the Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons, 14 November:

Following are the remarks, as prepared for delivery, by UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon at the Bangladesh Institute of Peace Support Operation Training (BIPSOT), in Rajendrapur, Bangladesh, 14 November:

Following are UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s remarks at the opening of the Climate Vulnerable Forum, in Dhaka on 14 November:

Following is UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s message to the Global Social Business Summit 2011 in Vienna, 11-12 November, delivered by Thomas Stelzer, Assistant Secretary-General for Policy Coordination and Interagency Affairs, Department of Economic and Social Affairs:

Following is UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s message for the International Day of Tolerance, to be observed on 16 November:

Following is UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s message, delivered by Kassym-Jomart Tokayev, Director-General of the United Nations Office at Geneva, to the thirteenth annual Conference of the High Contracting Parties to Amended Protocol II to the Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons, in Geneva on 11 November:

This is the text of a message by UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon to mark World Diabetes Day, observed on 14 November: