13 June 2008
UN Secretary-General delivers major speech to UNA-UK in London

UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon delivered a speech under UNA-UK’s auspices in his first major public appearance in the UK.

In the speech, entitled ‘Securing the Common Good: The United Nations and the Expanding Global Agenda’, Mr Ban praised UNA-UK’s role in cultivating constructive UK government engagement with the UN and in ‘explaining the UN to the UK while helping to convey the concerns of British citizens to the UN’.

He said that the international community had ‘a unique opportunity to enhance the UN’s central role in world affairs’ to deliver results for a more prosperous, more secure and more just world.

To read the full speech, click here. To view 40 more photographs of the event, please click the logo on the right.

(From L to R): Sam Daws, UNA-UK Executive Director; Lord Hannay, Chair of UNA-UK; and UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon
UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon delivers his speech to UNA-UK on 13 June 2008
700 people attended the talk at the Royal Geographical Society

All photographs © UNA-UK/Marcus Dawes