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United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon and his wife, Ban Soon-taek, arrived in Mexico City on Sunday, 3 August.

United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon and his wife, Ban Soon-taek, arrived in Berlin, the German capital, on an official visit on Tuesday, 15 July, from Paris, where he had attended the Summit of the Union for the Mediterranean.

United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon and his wife, Ban Soon-taek, arrived in Paris on Sunday, 13 July.

United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, accompanied by Madam Ban Soon-taek, arrived in Sapporo, Hokkaido, in northern Japan from Seoul, Republic of Korea, on Monday morning, 7 July.  He immediately travelled by road to the site of the Summit of the Group of Eight (G-8) leaders gathering at Toyako ( Lake Toya).

United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon and his wife, Ban Soon-taek, arrived from Tokyo to Beijing on Tuesday, 1 July, on the second leg of his three-country North-East Asian visit and to the Group of Eight (G-8) Summit in Hokkaido the following week.

United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon and his wife, Ban Soon-taek, arrived in Tokyo from New York on Saturday, 28 June, and immediately proceeded to Tokyo train station to board a Shinkansen or high-speed bullet train to Kyoto, kicking off a two-week, three-nation official visit to East Asia, which was to culminate with his participation at the annual Summit of the Group of Eight (G-8) industrialized countries in Toyako, Hokkaido, Japan.

United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon arrived from London on Saturday, 14 June, in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, where he was greeted by Saudi Foreign Minister Prince Saud Al-Faisal at the airport.  They discussed a number of issues in the wider region, including Somalia, Lebanon and the Middle East peace process.

United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon and his wife, Ban Soon-taek, arrived in London by train from Paris on Thursday, 12 June.

United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon and his wife Ban Soon-taek arrived in Paris on Thursday, 12 June.  In the morning, he addressed the Conference convened by the French Government in Paris to support Afghanistan, where President Hamid Karzai launched a National Development Strategy for his country.

United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon flew from Bangkok, Thailand, to the epicentre of the earthquake in China on Saturday morning, 24 May, to express his condolences and solidarity to the Chinese people and Government and to witness for himself the rescue efforts, following the 12 May earthquake that took at least 60,000 lives in China’s Sichuan Province.