UN Secretary General Ban Ki Moon arrived in Freetown on Monday on a two-day visit on the invitation of President of Sierra Leone Ernest Bai Koroma.
He was met at the Lungi International Airport by the Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation zainab Bangura and other dignitaries.
The UN Secretary General was flown from the airport to the main land by helicopter and received by a number of cabinet ministers.
In an interview with the Minister of Information and Communications Alhaji Ibrahim Kargbo, he said the visit is of "further assurance that the UN is
still with us to promote the peace process."
He said "President Koroma intends to use the occasion to explain to the UN Secretary General the ongoing reforms in the country."
Ban later held closed talks with President Koroma and visited the UN Special Court and watched a match by an amputee football team.
Ban is scheduled to hold a joint press conference with President Koroma Tuesday at the State House and later inaugurate the merged Sierra Leone
Broadcasting Cooperation (SLBC) which will be made up of the local UN Radio and the formal state radio Sierra Leone Broadcasting Service (SLBS).
The UN Representative in Sierra Leone Michael Schulenberg told the media earlier that "Sierra Leone is one of the few examples in which UN has had a successfully peace mission."
UN troops were deployed in Sierra Leon in 1999 to quell the 10- year rebel war.