Ban Ki-moon
Secretary-General of the United Nations Ban Ki-moon talk to the media after visiting a 'low-carbon' exhibition at the Capital Museum in Beijing on June 20, 2013. Ban met Chinese president Xi Jinping for talks on June 20, and is also scheduled to meet China's Premier Li Keqiang and other officials, with North Korea and Syria expected to dominate discussions.
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UN Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon has nominated Mukhisa Kituyi, a Kenyan, to serve as the Secretary General of the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development. This provides Africa with another opportunity to play a greater role in global trade
Falk is dangerously trying to intimidate and silence the UN’s only watchdog group, to grant himself impunity while he continues to exculpate terrorist groups and make other inflammatory remarks that contradict the UN’s founding principles ... We are in good company, however, given that Falk’s report also accuses Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon of being ‘complicit’ with UN Watch for having condemned his ‘preposterous’ comments, in 2011 and again last month.
We call on UN Secretary Ban Ki-moon to denounce Richard Falk’s McCarthy-style attempt to have rogue regimes conduct a retaliatory ‘investigation’ of UN Watch, as a punishment for successfully exposing his gross misconductMore quotes »
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UN chief warns of new peacekeeping threats
-- U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said Wednesday the world body's peacekeeping efforts face growing dangers from non-traditional threats such as suicide bombers and improvised explosive devices.Ban told reporters on a visit to a peacekeeping training base 6/19/13 Read more »
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UN: Poaching threatens central Africa peace
groups, including the Lord's Resistance Army, threatening peace and security in central Africa, U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said in a report to the Security Council.In a report obtained Tuesday by The Associated Press, Ban said that the situation has Read more »
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Obama, S. Korea to show united front on N. Korea
vital we show unity," Russel told reporters.Park touched down in New York on Monday, meeting first with U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon , a former South Korean foreign minister who praised her "firm but measured" response to North Korean provocations and Read more »
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UN: Chemical investigators ready to go to Syria
-- U.N. chief Ban Ki-moon says inspectors are ready to deploy to Syria within 24 hours to investigate reported chemical weapon attacks in the country's two-year civil war but have no permission yet from President Bashar Assad's government.Ban says reports Read more »
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Al-Shabaab fighters claim blitz on UN base
UN worker, two Somali security guards and three civilians in the surrounding streets, officials said. UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said he was “shocked” by the brazen daylight raid while Somali Prime Minister Abdi Farah Shirdon condemned it as a “senseless 6/19/13 from Independent Online (South Africa) Read more »
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UN leader outraged at Somalia attack
Nations chief Ban Ki-moon and the Security Council have expressed outrage at an Islamist attack on an UN compound in Somalia which killed at least nine people. Seven attackers were also killed in the suicide bombing on Wednesday on the UN compound in Mogadishu, 6/19/13 from Big Pond News Read more »
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UN chief praises China's peacekeeping efforts
Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon praised China's commitment to peacekeeping efforts on Wednesday during a visit to a peacekeeping training base in Beijing. Ban said China has provided more peacekeepers to the United Nations than all the other four permanent members 6/19/13 from SINA English Read more »
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Chinese president meets UN chief
of China, June 19, 2013. (Xinhua/Liu Jiansheng) Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi (R) shakes hands with UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon in Beijing, capital of China, June 19, 2013.(Xinhua/Ding Lin) Xi said people around the world have pinned their hopes on 6/19/13 from SINA English Read more »
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Group: Exclude Chad troops from UN force in Mali
inclusion in the new peacekeeping mission poses an uncomfortable dilemma for the United Nations because Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon included the country on its annual 'list of shame' of child recruiters last month. The Watch List on Children and Armed Conflict 6/19/13 from Miami Herald Read more »
