Ban Ki-moon at the Forum of the Alliance of Civilizations

United Nations, 6 April 2009 - Daily Briefing by the Office of the Spokesperson for the Secretary General. The Secretary-General is heading back to New York from Istanbul, Turkey, wrapping up a trip that took him to six countries in twelve days.
This morning in Istanbul, he addressed the Second Forum of the Alliance of Civilizations, a joint Spanish-Turkish initiative under UN auspices that seeks to address the polarization between societies and cultures today. In his statement, the Secretary-General said that the Alliance gives us a chance to consign identity-based divisiveness to the past and to recognize our common humanity before it is too late.
Over the weekend, the Secretary-General chaired a meeting in Paris of the UN systems Chief Executives Board for Coordination (CEB), in what he believed was a timely and significant session to devise a follow-up strategy to the G-20 summit across the UN system and the Bretton Woods institutions.
The Secretary-General is headed back to New York but will be off again before week's end. This time, he is traveling to Asia -- first to Laos for an official visit, and then to Thailand for the summit of the Association of South-East Asian Nations (ASEAN).
From Asia, he plans to travel back to the United States to attend the donors conference on Haiti in Washington D.C.

Address by the Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon to the Second Alliance of Civilizations Forum:
http://www.un.org/News/Press/docs//2009/sgsm12173.doc.htm

Alliance of Civilizations website:
http://www.unaoc.org/

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