Travel

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.

United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon arrived in Washington, D.C., on Wednesday evening, 18 February, to attend the Summit on Countering Violent Extremism, hosted by the United States Government.

United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon arrived in Dubai from Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, on Sunday evening, 8 February.

United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon arrived in Riyadh from New York on Saturday evening, 7 February.  Soon after his arrival, the Secretary-General and his delegation attended a dinner with United Nations staff working in Saudi Arabia.

United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, accompanied by his wife, Madame Ban Soon-taek, arrived in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, late on Thursday evening, 29 January, to attend the twenty-fourth Summit of the African Union.

United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon arrived in Davos, Switzerland, shortly after noon on Thursday, 22 January, to attend the World Economic Forum.

On Wednesday, 14 January, United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon flew from India to Tegucigalpa, Honduras, for an official visit to the country.

On Thursday, 15 January, United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon flew from Copán Ruinas in Honduras to San Salvador, El Salvador, to attend the twenty-third anniversary of the peace agreements that put an end to civil war in the country.

Upon arrival in New Delhi from New York on Saturday, 10 January, United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon had a brief meeting at the airport with Rajendra Pachauri, the chair of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.  Mr. Pachauri briefed him about the on-going work of the Panel and on his planned activities in the months ahead.

On Saturday, 20 December, United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon flew to Bamako, Mali, the fourth and last leg of his visit to Ebola-affected countries in West Africa.