Following is UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s message to the closing ceremony for the International Year of Biodiversity, delivered by Ahmed Djoghlaf, Executive Secretary of the Convention on Biological Diversity, in Kanazawa, Japan, 18 December:
Following is the text of UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s statement to the Security Council’s open debate on sexual violence in conflict, in New York, today, 16 December:
Following are UN Secretary-GeneralBan Ki-moon’s remarks on the fiftieth anniversary of the Declaration on the Granting of Independence to Colonial Countries and Peoples, in New York, 14 December:
Following are UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s remarks to the replenishment conference for the Central Emergency Response Fund (CERF), in New York, 14 December: