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Travel


SG/T/2814

United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon travelled on Wednesday morning, 12 October, from Copenhagen to Sweden. Upon arrival, he headed straight to Uppsala, where he visited the grave of his predecessor, Dag Hammarskjöld, marking 50 years since the then-Secretary-General died in an air crash in Ndola.

SG/T/2809

United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, accompanied by Madam Ban Soon‑taek, arrived in Tarawa, Kiribati, on Sunday afternoon, 4 September, from Honiara, Solomon Islands. Before landing just before dusk, the aircraft flew low over Tarawa so the Secretary-General could observe the layout of the low-lying and narrow island and gain an appreciation of the scale of the challenge Kiribati faces from rising sea levels.

SG/T/2808

United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, accompanied by Madam Ban Soon-taek, arrived in Honiara from Canberra on Saturday evening, 3 September. En route, his aircraft made a low pass over Gizo and Marovo Lagoon, in the Solomon Islands, so that the Secretary-General could see the effects of deforestation and climate change.

SG/T/2806

United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, accompanied by Madam Ban Soon-taek, arrived in Paris from New York early on Thursday afternoon, 1 September. He was to attend the “International Conference in Support of the New Libya” along with other world leaders.