Welcome to the United Nations. It's your world.

• Home
• About
  • Biography
  • The role of the Secretary-General
  • Appointment process
• Mission
  • Vision and priorities
  • Ethical Standards
  • Transparency (public disclosure)
• The Team
  • Deputy Secretary-General
  • Senior Management Group
  • Special Representatives and envoys
  • High-Level Panel on Post-2015 Development Agenda
  • Senior Level Vacancies
• Daily Agenda
  • Public schedule
  • Travel
  • Bilateral meetings (readouts)
• Speeches/reports
  • All speeches
  • Selected speeches
    (2006 – 2011)
  • Reports on the work of the Organization
  • Reports to the Security Council
  • Reports to the General Assembly
  • Reports to the ECOSOC
• Media
  • Spokesperson's Office
  • Press encounters
  • Press conferences
  • Statements attributable to the Spokesperson
  • Notes to correspondents
  • Press Articles/op-eds
  • Press releases
  • Photos
  • Videos

Off-the-Cuff Archives

Latest Off-the-Cuff

• Maputo, Mozambique - Secretary-General's remarks at press encounter with Foreign Minister Oldemiro Baloi of Mozambique

• Sochi, Russian Federation - Secretary-General's Press Encounter at the beginning of his meeting with H.E. Mr. Vladimir Putin, President of the Russian Federation
• Sochi, Russia - Secretary-General's press encounter with Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov [Full Transcript]

• New York - Secretary-General's press encounter on Syria

• New York - Secretary-General's press conference

• Washington, D.C. - Secretary-General's Press Encounter Following Meeting with President Barack Obama of the United States of America

• Rome, Italy - Secretary-General's remarks to press following visit to the Vatican

• The Hague, The Netherlands - Secretary-General's remarks at joint press conference with Ahmed Üzümcü, Director-General of the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons
• The Hague, The Netherlands - Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s remarks to the press on the passing of Margaret Thatcher
• The Hague, The Netherlands - Secretary-General's remarks at joint press encounter with Foreign Minister Franciscus Cornelis Gerardus Maria Timmermans of the The Netherlands

• Madrid, Spain - Secretary-General's remarks at joint press conference with Mariano Rajoy, Prime Minister of Spain
• Monaco - Secretary-General's Joint Press Conference with H.E. Mr. Michel Roger, Minister of State and Chief of Government of the Principality of Monaco

• Italy - Secretary-General's remarks at San Patrignano Drug Rehabilitation Centre
• Andorra - Secretary-General's remarks at press conference with Prime Minister Antoni Martí of Andorra

• New York - Secretary-General's Press Encounter on Syrian Government Request

• New York - Secretary-General's press encounter following Security Council meeting and consultations on the Democratic Republic of the Congo

• Geneva, Switzerland - Secretary-General's press conference in Geneva - full transcript

• Vienna, Austria - Secretary-General's remarks at press encounter at the Fifth Global Forum of the UN Alliance of Civilizations

• Addis Ababa, Ethiopia - Secretary-General's remarks at press conference in Addis Ababa

• Washington, D.C. - Secretary-General's remarks at press encounter with U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry