Search: Ban Ki-moon (4 materials)

South Korea Without a Prime Minister

... according to rumours). Will the scandal surrounding Lee Wan-koo’s resignation have long-lasting consequences? The most likely candidate that the ruling party will put forward in the December 2017 presidential elections is current UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, whose second term in office will end in December 2016. But the wave of corruption in South Korea has taken the shine off his reputation as well. The Conservatives, however, are unlikely to just let the opposition sweep in and take power. ...

29.04.2015

United Nations through the eyes of Ban Ki-moon

... Executive Office of the Secretary-General Interview In balancing the interests of 193 UN Member States with the principles of the UN Charter, the Secretary-General handles the most complex problems in the world, ones which have no easy solutions. Ban Ki-moon prefers quiet diplomacy over the bully pulpit; and this approach has earned him unanimous support by the UN Member States for his second term. In this interview Michèle Griffin, Director of Policy Planning Unit in the Executive Office of ...

15.03.2013

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    U.S. wants to dissolve Russia  
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