Statements and Messages

Following is UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s message for World Environment Day, observed 5 June:

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

Following is UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s message for World No Tobacco Day, observed on 31 May:

Following is UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s remarks to the Brazilian Haiti Peacekeeping Commemoration, as prepared for delivery, in Rio de Janeiro, today, 27 May:

Following is UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s message on the resumption of Cyprus talks, delivered by Alexander Downer, Special Adviser to the Secretary-General on Cyprus, in Nicosia on 26 May:

Following are UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s remarks to the Security Council meeting on intercultural dialogue for peace and security, in New York on 26 May:

Following is UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s message to United Nations International Meeting in Support of the Israeli-Palestinian Peace Process — “Ending the Occupation and Establishing the Palestinian State” — delivered by Robert H. Serry, United Nations Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process and Personal Representative of the Secretary-General to the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) and the Palestinian Authority:

Following are UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s remarks at the tenth anniversary of the Optional Protocols to the Convention on the Rights of the Child, in New York, 25 May:

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

Following is UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s message to the Asia Media Summit, delivered by Kiyo Akasaka, Under-Secretary-General for Communications and Public Information, in Beijing, 25 May: