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UN's Ban Ki-moon to Visit Lesvos on June 18

UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon will visit Lesvos, Greece, on June 18 to meet with migrants, asylum seekers and the volunteers who support them. “I will visit Lesvos to assess the situation and express my solidarity,” Ban told journalists speaking at...

4th Athens Democracy Forum: Religion, Migration, Power & Money

The fourth annual Athens Democracy Forum, hosted and moderated by New York Times editors, will be held in the City of Athens on September 14-18 this year on the theme "Religion, Migration, Power + Money." According to the NYT organizers,...

UN: Step Up Efforts to Protect Migrants, Refugees

A new U.N. report expresses concern about rising xenophobia and discrimination against migrants and refugees. “Xenophobic and racist responses to refugees and migrants seem to be reaching new levels of stridency, frequency and public acceptance,” U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon says...

State Department: Every Country Has the Right to Control its Grounds

UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon highlighted on Friday that the borders must remain open because "such border restrictions do not apply with the Convention of 1951 for the Status of refugees and the 1967 Protocol, because the individual definition...

UN's Ban Ki-moon Now Has a 'Clearer' Picture on the Cyprus Peace Talks

UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon now has a clear picture about the UN-led peace talks taking place in Cyprus, Cyprus Government Spokesman Nicos Christodoulides said on Thursday. Christodoulides’ statement came after a meeting between President Nicos Anastasiades and Turkish Cypriot...

Akinci: 'Yes' to Meeting Anastasiades and Ban in Davos

Turkish Cypriot leader Mustafa Akinci has said “yes” to holding a meeting with Cypriot President Nicos Anastasiades and UN Secretary-general Ban Ki-Moon in Davos, if it is asked of him. Akinci’s statements on Wednesday were made after Anastasiades had made...

UN Secretary General Sees a Cyprus Settlement Closer Than Ever

UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon believes that while there is no official timeline for the Cyprus negotiations, there is a real unique window of opportunity for the process to finally succeed. In his Good Offices Mission report, the Secretary General...

European Trade Union Confederation Urges Revamp of Asylum Rules

European trade unions are urging new rules for asylum rights be introduced to ensure the migrants and refugees are "evenhandedly" accepted among EU member states. Delegates Wednesday at the congress of the European Trade Union Confederation in Paris, in a...

Video: Ban Ki-moon Astonished by the Media Attention to PM Tsipras During UN Meeting

Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras met with the UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon at the UN on Tuesday, September 30. During the customary photo - op for the meting Ban Ki-moon said to Tsipras that he was surprised by...

US Secretary of State John Kerry Welcomes Continued Progress in Cyprus Peace Talks

The US Secretary of State has welcomed continued progress in Cyprus peace talks, under the auspices of UN. State Secretary John Kerry met Saturday with Cyprus President Nicos Anastasiades who is in New York for the UN General Assembly. President...