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Statements and Messages

22 January 2010

SG/SM/12714

Secretary-General Pays Tribute to ‘Service and Sacrifice’ of Slain UN Colleague Alec Collett, at New York Memorial Service

Following is UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s tribute to Alec Collett, read by Nicholas Haysom, Director, Political, Peacekeeping and Humanitarian Affairs, Executive Office of the Secretary-General, at a memorial service in New York, 21 January:

22 January 2010

SG/SM/12715

Secretary-General Says Developing Countries Have Special Understanding of Haiti’s Challenges; Hopes Their Continued Support Can Aid Recovery, in New York Remarks

Following are UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s remarks to a ceremony marking the handover of the Group of 77 Chairmanship in New York, 22 January:

22 January 2010

SG/SM/12713-GA/10914

Addressing General Assembly Meeting on Haiti, Secretary-General Spells Out Priorities in Responding to Disaster as Its Scale Becomes Clear

Following are UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s remarks to the General Assembly meeting on Haiti, in New York today, 22 January:

21 January 2010

SG/SM/12712-GA/PAL/1144

In Remarks to Palestinian Rights Committee, Secretary-General Warns Forward Movement Needed Soon on Middle East Peace Process, or ‘We Risk Sliding Backwards’

Following are UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s remarks at the opening of the 2010 session of the Committee on the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People, in New York, 21 January:

20 January 2010

SG/SM/12711

In Remarks to Mass at New York’s Holy Family Church, Secretary-General Describes Sad Duty ‘To Remember and Mourn Those We Have Lost in Haiti’

Following are UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s remarks at a mass in remembrance of those who died in Haiti at Holy Family Church, New York, 20 January:

20 January 2010

SG/SM/12710-AFR/1933

Secretary-General Deeply Concerned by Inter-Religious Violence in Jos, Nigeria; Appeals to All Concerned to Seek Peaceful Solutions to Religious Differences

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

20 January 2010

SG/SM/12709

Secretary-General Concerned about Growing Violence in Lead-up to Presidential Election in Sri Lanka

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

19 January 2010

SG/SM/12708/Rev.1-OBV/849/Rev.1

Holocaust Survivors ‘Living Testament That Tyranny, Though it May Rise, Will Surely Not Prevail', Says Secretary-General in International Day Message

Following is UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s message for the International Day in Memory of the Victims of the Holocaust, observed 27 January:

19 January 2010

SG/SM/12707

Financial Crisis No Reason to Cut Aid Earmarked for World’s Poorest People, Secretary-General Stresses at Launch of ‘Education for All’ Report

Following is UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s remarks at the launch of the Global Monitoring Report on Education for All, in New York today, 19 January:

19 January 2010

SG/SM/12706-DC/3208

Secretary-General Urges Conference to Show Its Continuing Relevance by Strengthening Rule of Law in Disarmament Field

Following is UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s video message to the Conference on Disarmament in Geneva today, 19 January: