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14 May 2014

Stockholm - Secretary-General’s remarks at press briefing with Fredrik Reinfeldt, Prime Minister of Sweden {scroll down for Q&A}

13 May 2014

New York - Secretary-General's message on Vesak Day
New York - Transcript of press briefing with the Secretary-General and Lakhdar Brahimi, Joint Special Representative for Syria

12 May 2014

Khartoum - Secretary-General's video message for Third China-Africa People's Forum
New York - Secretary-General's remarks at the Opening Ceremony of the 13th Session of the UN Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues
New York - Secretary-General's Briefing to the Security Council on South Sudan
Republic of Korea - Secretary-General's message to the Clean Energy Ministerial Meeting
New York - Secretary-General's remarks at photo-op with Major General Kristin Lund of Norway as Force Commander of the UN Peacekeeping Force in Cyprus, and first female Force Commander of any UN Peacekeeping Operation
New York - Secretary-General's Press Encounter following the Security Council Briefing on South Sudan {scroll down for Q & A}

12 May 2014

Ankara - Secretary-General's message to the International Meeting on the Question of Jerusalem

09 May 2014

Rome - Secretary-General's remarks at audience with His Holiness Pope Francis
New York - Statement attributable to the Spokesman for the Secretary-General on South Sudan

08 May 2014

New York - Statement attributable to the Spokesman for the Secretary-General on the establishment of the ‘Captain Mbaye Diagne Medal for Exceptional Courage'
Rome - Statement attributable to the Spokesman for the Secretary-General on kidnapped girls in Nigeria
Rome - Statement attributable to the Spokesman for the Secretary-General on phonecall with President Goodluck Jonathan of Nigeria
Rome - Statement attributable to the Spokesman for the Secretary-General on the elections in South Africa

07 May 2014

Rome - Secretary-General's remarks to the Committee on World Food Security
New York - Deputy Secretary-General's Remarks to open debate of the Security Council on non-proliferation (Implementation of Resolution 1540)

06 May 2014

Jeddah - Secretary-General's message to 11th Asia Media Summit, 6-8 May 2014
Juba - Secretary-General's remarks at press encounter with President Salva Kiir of South Sudan
New York - Statement attributable to the Spokesman for the Secretary-General on the occasion of the signing by all nuclear-weapon States of the Protocol to the Treaty on a Nuclear-Weapon-Free Zone in Central Asia

06 May 2014

Colombo - Message to World Conference on Youth 2014
St Augustine - Secretary-General's video message for the launch of the Diplomatic Academy of the Caribbean
UNMISS Compound, Juba - Secretary General's remarks at press conference prior to departure from South Sudan

05 May 2014

Beijing - Secretary-General's message on the Inauguration of Yenching Academy, Peking University
Abu Dhabi - Secretary-General's remarks at closing plenary session of the "Abu Dhabi Ascent"
New York - Deputy Secretary-General's remarks at General Assembly Special Thematic Debate on Culture and Sustainable Development in the Post-2015 Development Agenda [as delivered]

05 May 2014

Manama - Secretary-General's message to Conference on Civilizations in the Service of Humanity

04 May 2014

Abu Dhabi - Secretary-General’s remarks at the opening of the Plenary of the "Abu Dhabi Ascent"
Abu Dhabi - Secretary-General’s press conference at "Abu Dhabi Ascent" meeting [full transcript]

03 May 2014

Abu Dhabi - Readout of the Secretary-General’s meeting with Nabil El-Araby, Secretary-General of the League of Arab States
New York - Secretary-General's message on World Press Freedom Day
New York - Statement attributable to the Spokesman for the Secretary-General on the situation in Ukraine—release of OSCE monitors and the violence in Odessa
New York - Statement attributable to the Spokesman for the Secretary-General on the landslide in Afghanistan

02 May 2014

New York - Note to correspondents on the talks between Greece and the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia
New York - Statement attributable to the Spokesman for the Secretary-General on the situation in Ukraine

01 May 2014

New York - Readout of the Secretary-General’s meeting with H.E. Mr. Nabil Fahmy, Foreign Minister of the Arab Republic of Egypt
New York - Secretary-General's remarks at the Interactive Dialogue of the President of the General Assembly on Elements for an Accountability Framework for the Post-2015 Development Agenda
New York - Secretary-General's Remarks on World Press Freedom Day
New York - Deputy Secretary-General's closing remarks at the Interactive Dialogue of the President of the General Assembly on Elements for an Accountability Framework for the Post-2015 Development Agenda
New York - Statement attributable to the Spokesman for the Secretary-General on elections in Iraq
New York - Statement attributable to the Spokesman for the Secretary-General on the Middle East Peace Process

30 April 2014

New York - Readout of the Secretary-General’s meeting with Mr. Jaakko Laajava, facilitator of the Helsinki Conference on the establishment of a Middle East zone free of nuclear weapons and all other weapons of mass destruction
New York - Statement attributable to the Spokesman for the Secretary-General on Syria

30 April 2014

Mumbai - Secretary-General's message on the occasion of the launch in India of the United Nations Free & Equal Campaign

29 April 2014

New York - Readout of the Secretary-General's telephone conversation with President Salva Kiir Mayardit of South Sudan
New York - Secretary-General's message on the Day of Remembrance for Victims of Chemical Warfare
New York - Secretary-General's remarks at General Assembly Structured Dialogue on Technology Facilitation
Tallinn - Secretary-General's video message to the fourth Annual Freedom Online Coalition Conference: Free and Secure Internet for All - 28-29 April 2014
New York - Allocution du Secrétaire général à la cérémonie de remise de documents de l'ONU à la République centrafricaine - comme préparée [Scroll down for English]

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