United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon arrived in Tunis on Monday evening, 21 March, after completing a visit to Egypt. He had said at the outset that he was visiting both countries to support their recent efforts at forging a democratic transition, by listening to the peoples and Government of each country to determine what kind of assistance they wanted.
United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon arrived in Cairo, Egypt, on Sunday, 20 March, after having departed an international conference on Libya that had taken place in Paris the previous day. He immediately went to the Foreign Ministry to meet the country’s new Foreign Minister, Nabil Abdalla El-Araby.
United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon travelled to Madrid, Spain, from Guatemala on Friday, 18 March. He met Prime Minister José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero and Foreign Minister Trinidad Jiménez, and followed that meeting with a working luncheon with the Prime Minister and his senior aides.
United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon arrived in Paris on Saturday, 19 March, to co-chair an international meeting on Libya with French President Nicolas Sarkozy. He flew in from Madrid with Spanish Prime Minister José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero, whom he had met on an official visit to Spain one day earlier.
United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon arrived in Guatemala City, Guatemala, on Tuesday night, 15 March. The visit to Guatemala was his first since becoming Secretary-General.
United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon arrived in Washington, D.C., at midday Monday, 28 February. His first appointment was a meeting with President Barack Obama at the White House. They discussed the need for an immediate end to the violence in Libya, the Middle East, North Africa, Côte d’Ivoire and Sudan, as well as United Nations reform, sustainable development and climate change.
United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon arrived in Lima, Peru, on Monday night, 14 February, following an official visit to Ecuador. The visit to Peru was the first made by Mr. Ban since becoming Secretary-General.
United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon arrived in Quito, Ecuador, on Sunday, 13 February, in his first visit to the country.
United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, accompanied by Madam Ban Soon‑taek, arrived in Berlin in the early evening of Thursday, 3 February.
United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, accompanied by Madam Ban Soon-taek, arrived in London from Addis Ababa on Wednesday, 2 February. He met that day with David Cameron, the Prime Minister, and other United Kingdom dignitaries.
