Travel

United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon and Madam Ban Soon-taek arrived in Paris from Rome on Tuesday afternoon, 28 April.

Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon travelled to Washington, D.C., on Wednesday evening, 15 April, in order to meet with United States officials and participate in the Spring Meetings of the World Bank Group and the International Monetary Fund.  Ban Ki-moon was the first Secretary-General to receive invitations to speak to the Development Committee and the International Monetary and Finance Committee of those two bodies.

United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, accompanied by Madam Ban Soon-taek, arrived in Panama City, from New York on Thursday, 9 April, to attend the seventh Summit of the Americas.

United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon flew on Saturday, 11 April, from Panama City, Panama, to Doha, Qatar, to attend the thirteenth UN Congress on Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice.

United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon arrived in Kuwait late in the afternoon of 30 March from Baghdad to attend the Third Humanitarian Pledging Conference for Syria.

United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon paid a previously unannounced visit to Iraq on Monday, 30 March.  He arrived from Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt, early in the day, and was greeted at Baghdad International Airport by Muhammad Jawad Al-Doraky, Undersecretary for Legal Affairs and Multilateral Relations of Iraq.

United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon arrived in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt, from New York, having transited via Istanbul, on Saturday morning, 28 March, to attend the twenty-sixth Summit of the League of Arab States.

United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon arrived in Rome in the evening of 17 March, from Tokyo, Japan.

United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, accompanied by Madam Ban Soon-taek, arrived in Tokyo in the afternoon of Friday, 13 March.  They then flew to the city of Sendai, in the north of Japan, arriving on the same evening.

On Tuesday, 24 February, United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, accompanied by Madam Ban Soon-taek, flew from New York to Asunción, Paraguay, for an official visit to the country.