Travel

United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon arrived in Amman, Jordan, from Jerusalem in the late afternoon of Wednesday, 23 July. This was the fifth leg of his Middle East visit.

Upon arrival at Ben Gurion Airport in Israel — the fourth stop on his Middle East journey — in the early afternoon of Tuesday, 22 July, United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon was greeted by Ya’akov Peri, Minister of Science and Technology. From the airport, the Secretary-General travelled by road directly to Tel Aviv to meet at the Ministry of Defense with Israeli Defense Minister Moshe Ya’alon.

United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, accompanied by Madam Ban Soon-taek, arrived in Managua, Nicaragua, in the morning of Tuesday, 29 July, on his first official visit to the Central American country.

United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, accompanied by his wife Ban Soon-taek, arrived in Santo Domingo, from Haiti, early in the evening of Tuesday, 15 July.

United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, accompanied by his wife Ban Soon-taek, arrived in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, in the early afternoon of Monday, 14 July.

United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, accompanied by Madam Ban Soon-taek, flew on Friday, 27 June, from Malabo, Equatorial Guinea, to Nairobi, Kenya, for the first United Nation Environment Assembly in Nairobi.

United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, accompanied by Madam Ban Soon-taek, flew on Monday, 23 June, from New York to Windhoek, for an official visit to Namibia at the invitation of the Government.

United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, accompanied by Madam Ban Soon-taek, flew on Wednesday, 25 June, from Windhoek, Namibia, to Malabo, Equatorial Guinea, to attend the twenty-third African Union Summit.

United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, accompanied by Madam Ban Soon-taek, arrived late on Thursday, 12 June, in Santa Cruz de la Sierra directly from São Paolo, Brazil, where he attended the opening game of the 2014 Football World Cup at Itaquera Stadium. He travelled to Bolivia with President Evo Morales Ayma, who had also witnessed the opening match.

United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, accompanied by Madam Ban Soon-taek, arrived in Geneva, Switzerland, on Monday, 16 June, having departed Bolivia the day before, with brief stopovers in Lima and Madrid.