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.
United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon flew to Jackson, Wyoming, in the afternoon of Friday, 6 June, to open the first ever Global Insight Summit. The Summit was convened by the United Nations and the Jackson Hole Film Institute and held during the fifth annual Jackson Hole Film Festival.
United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon arrived in Bangkok in the afternoon of Wednesday, 21 May, en route to Myanmar to see for himself the areas and people affected by Cyclone Nargis. From Bangkok, he would also travel to the epicentre of the earthquake in the Chinese province of Sichuan.
United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon flew to Atlanta, Georgia, on the evening of Wednesday, 7 May, as part of his ongoing efforts to reach out to major American cities and citizens, and also to make progress on global health, one of his top priorities for 2008 and beyond.
United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon and Madam Ban Soon-taek travelled from Vienna, Austria, to Bern, Switzerland, in the afternoon of Sunday, 27 April.
United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon flew to London from Geneva on Thursday, 1 May, to chair a meeting of the principals of the Middle East Quartet on Friday.
