Statements and Messages

Following is UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s message for the International Peace Institute (IPI) Seminar on Peacemaking and Peacekeeping, delivered today by Alain Le Roy, Under-Secretary-General for Peacekeeping Operations, in Vienna:

Following is UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s message for the Day of Vesak, to be observed on 28 May:

Following are UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s remarks to the concluding session of the 18th session of the Commission on Sustainable Development, in New York, 14 May:

Following are UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s remarks to the General Assembly informal meeting on piracy, in New York today, 14 May:

Following is UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s message for World Telecommunication and Information Society Day, to be observed on 17 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 for the International Day for Biological Diversity, to be observed on 22 May:

Following are UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s remarks, as prepared for delivery, to the United Nations Association of Canada, in Ottawa on 12 May:

Following are UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s remarks to the UNA-USA Model United Nations, in New York, 13 May:

Following is the text of UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s remarks to the General Assembly in honour of the late President Alhaji Umaru Yar’Adua of Nigeria, today, 13 May, in New York: