Tag: Ban Ki-moon

• Monday, November 30th 2015 - 07:03 UTC

  What I expect from the UN Climate Change Conference in Paris

  

  By Ban Ki-Moon (*) - For the nearly nine years that I have been Secretary-General, I have travelled the world to the front-lines of climate change, and I have spoken repeatedly with world leaders, business people and citizens about the need for an urgent global response

• Wednesday, November 25th 2015 - 07:03 UTC

  Macri names top UN official as Argentina's next Foreign Minister

  

  President-elect Mauricio Macri has tapped a top United Nations official to be Argentina's next foreign minister. Macri announced on his Facebook page on Tuesday that he picked Susana Malcorra, Cabinet chief for U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-moon since 2012.

• Tuesday, November 3rd 2015 - 05:08 UTC

  UN honors journalists killed in the line of duty for 'reporting the truth'

  

  Marking the International Day to End Impunity for Crimes against Journalists, United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon honoured journalists and media workers who were killed in the line of duty for merely ‘reporting the truth’ and is underscoring the importance of protecting their rights and ensuring they can report freely.

• Wednesday, October 28th 2015 - 07:54 UTC

  Venezuela warns Canada over mining activities in Guyana: 'infringing on territorial sovereignty'

  

  Venezuela has objected to a Canadian mining company operating in Guyana, telling the company it is infringing on Caracas’ sovereignty. And the move has not gone down well with Guyana’s president David Granger.

• Monday, October 26th 2015 - 05:15 UTC

  United Nations Day: “there is only one flag that belongs to all of us”

  

  October 24, was the seventieth anniversary of the United Nations Organization. Secretary General Ban Ki-moon message for such an occasion follows: National flags are a mark of pride and patriotism in every country around the world. But there is only one flag that belongs to all of us. That blue flag of the United Nations was a banner of hope for me growing up in wartime Korea.

• Wednesday, October 7th 2015 - 09:56 UTC

  Former UN General Assembly president charged over corruption ring

  

  United States authorities charged a former president of the United Nations General Assembly, a billionaire Macau real estate developer and four others on Tuesday for engaging in a wide-ranging corruption scheme.

• Friday, October 2nd 2015 - 05:20 UTC

  Caricom fully supports Guyana's 'territorial integrity' and insists the Caribbean is Zone of Peace

  

  Caribbean Community and Common Market (CARICOM) Foreign Ministers have welcomed Venezuela’s decision to receive a United Nations (UN) technical team which will provide recommendations to the UN Secretary-General on the way forward to a full and final solution to its territorial dispute with Guyana. And they say they fully support Guyana’s “territorial integrity”.

• Monday, September 28th 2015 - 10:15 UTC

  Guyana and Venezuela agree to restore ambassador and hold talks

  

  Following a tense meeting, the presidents of Venezuela and Guyana agreed Sunday to restore ambassadors and hold talks to resolve a long-running border dispute that flared up recently following the discovery of oil in disputed waters.

• Monday, September 28th 2015 - 10:05 UTC

  “One billion tourists, one billion opportunities”, UN message on World Tourism Day

  

  Marking the observance of World Tourism Day, senior United Nations officials are spotlighting the transformative potential of one billion tourists and their increasing capacity to help boost socio-economic and environmental development.

• Saturday, September 26th 2015 - 08:35 UTC

  “The human element in shipping” was underlined by UN on World Maritime Day

  

  School children from local and international schools based in London attended an informative session at the International Maritime Organization (IMO) Headquarters as part of the celebrations of World Maritime Day, under the theme “Maritime education and training.”