Press release

United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon arrived in Moscow in the evening of 17 March after an overnight flight from New York and a brief stopover in Frankfurt.

On arrival in Moscow, the Secretary-General attended a dinner hosted by Frode Mauring, the United Nations Resident Coordinator and Zurab Tsereteli, a noted sculptor and artist, at the artist’s gallery in central Moscow.

Presentation of the results of mobilization work done during the meeting of the Protestant Churches’ Leadership in cooperation with ‘Russia Inland’ NGO under the project of support of church initiatives on HIV

Working meeting with the juvenile justice project partners

Seminar ‘Sources of microfinance as an opportunity to implement business ideas’ under UNDP project ‘Sustainable Integration and Recovery in the Republic of North Ossetia-Alania’

Regular working meeting between OHCHR and Russian university partners on the implementation of the pilot phase of human rights master’s programme

Presentation of the National Human Development Report 2009 ‘Energy Sector and Sustainable Development’

Visit of the Russian university partners to the European Inter-University Centre for Human Rights and Democratization in Venice for developing mutual cooperation and planning of joint activities

Moscow International Model UN Conference with 300 university students from two dozen countries

Visit of UNDP Resident Representative to Chelyabinsk for signing a MoU on cooperation in public-private partnership projects