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United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon arrived in Geneva from Istanbul on the morning of Tuesday, 10 May. At noon, he attended a round table discussion on strengthening preparedness for nuclear accidents.

United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon and Madam Ban Soon-taek arrived in Kyiv from Budapest in the morning of Tuesday, 19 April.

United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon and Madam Ban Soon-taek arrived in Moscow from Kyiv on Thursday afternoon, 21 April. His first appointment was to visit a centre for children with disabilities. He discussed the global problem of disability, at a time when about 10 per cent of the world’s people live with a disability — whether it is physical, emotional or sensory.

United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, accompanied by Madam Ban Soon-taek, arrived in Budapest from Prague in the early afternoon of Sunday, 17 April.

United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon arrived in Prague on Thursday evening, 14 April, at the start of a four-country visit to Eastern and Central Europe. On Friday morning, he met President Václav Klaus, whom he briefed on recent developments in the Middle East and North Africa, particularly Libya and Egypt.

United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon arrived in Cairo from Doha in the evening of Wednesday, 13 April. The following day, he and the Secretary-General of the League of Arab States, Amre Moussa, co-chaired a conference of international and regional organizations to discuss coordination on Libya.

United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon flew overnight from New York to Doha to take part in the first meeting of the International Contact Group on Libya, on Wednesday, 13 April. He told the officials gathered at the meeting that the international community had acted swiftly and decisively in the past seven weeks. But he said that even the most optimistic observers foresee a protracted period of instability before sustainable peace can be restored.

United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon arrived in Washington, D.C., on Wednesday evening, 6 April.

United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, accompanied by Madam Ban Soon‑taek, arrived in Nairobi in the evening of Thursday, 30 March, from London. The following morning, the Secretary-General launched his report on HIV/AIDS ahead of the high-level meeting on the topic at the General Assembly in June.

United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon arrived in the United Kingdom on Tuesday morning, 29 March, to address the International Conference on Libya taking place that day in London.