Tehran, YJC. -- UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon in his message on the International Day of Mine Awareness and Assistance in Mine Action 4 April 2014, called for a planet free from mines.
Tehran, YJC. -- In a statement attributable to the spokesperson for the UN Secretary-General, Ban Ki-moon condemns the killing of an Iranian border guard.
TEHRAN, 5 February 2014 (UNIC)—UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon in his message on the International Day of Zero Tolerance for Female Genital Mutilation (FGM), 6 February 2014, while announcing that more than 125 million girls and women alive today have been cut in 29 countries in Africa and the Middle East where FGM is most prevalent and data exist, warned that some 86 million young girls worldwide are likely to experience some form of the practice by 2030.
UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has strongly condemned the shelling of the Russian embassy in the Syrian capital, Damascus on Thursday, which killed one person and wounded
nine others.
Tehran, YJC. -- UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon in his message on World Day of Remembrance for Road Traffic Victims, 17 November 2013 while announcing that every year crashes take the lives of almost 1.24 million people called for making more roads safe for all who use them.
TEHRAN,YJC. —UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon in his message for the International Day for Eradication of Poverty, 17 October 2013, said that despite impressive achievement in cutting poverty by half, more than 1.2 billion people still live in extreme poverty worldwide.
U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-moon and the head of the Syrian opposition National Coalition Ahmed Jarba held their first meeting on Saturday in a bid to press for a Syria peace conference.
UN leader Ban Ki-moon said Friday he shares international doubts that Syria's President Bashar al-Assad will respect an international deal on his country's chemical weapons.