United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon travelled to Doha, Qatar, arriving on Monday, 3 December, to attend the eighteenth session of the Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change. Arriving in Doha late on Monday, he was briefed on the status of climate change talks by Christiana Figueres, the Executive Secretary of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change.
United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon began a visit to Turkey to assess the conditions of Syrian refugees there, by travelling on a United Nations plane from Jordan, where he had visited the Za’atari camp for Syrian refugees just hours earlier.
United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon left the climate change conference under way in Qatar on Wednesday, 5 December 2012, to travel to Kuwait, where he met with the Emir of Kuwait, Sheikh Sabah al-Ahmad al-Jaber al-Sabah.
United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon travelled to Iraq on Thursday, 6 December, after departing from Kuwait, where he had met with the Emir and other senior officials to discuss improving relations between Iraq and Kuwait.
United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon arrived in Amman, Jordan, on the evening of Thursday, 6 December, as part of what he earlier said was his effort to show solidarity with Syrian refugees living in camps located in neighbouring countries.
Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon arrived in Vienna on Monday morning, 26 November, after an overnight flight from New York.
In the late afternoon of Monday, 19 November, United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon flew from Sana'a to Cairo to start a shuttle mission to help secure a ceasefire between Gaza and Israel.
United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon arrived in Sana'a on the morning of Monday, 19 November, after leaving New York late on Saturday, 17 November, on a flight to Dubai, where he stopped overnight. The Secretary-General spent the day in Yemen to mark the first anniversary of the 23 November conclusion of the Yemen Peace and Transition Agreement and lend his personal support to that transition process.
United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, accompanied by Madam Ban Soon-taek, arrived in the Republic of Korea on Sunday evening, 28 October, after a flight from New York which left on Saturday afternoon.
United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, accompanied by Madam Ban Soon-taek, arrived in Des Moines, Iowa, on the afternoon of Thursday, 18 October.
