Ban Ki-moon

There is little room for compromise: Netherlands’ diplomat Peter van Walsum United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon’s former Envoy to the Sahara lost the support of Polisario and Algeria by declaring that independence was ‘not a realistic option’; Fassi-Fihri seems happy with former US Ambassador Christopher Ross’s appointment as Walsum’s replacement...

This follows sanctions announced by the European Union and the United States alongside United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon's setting-up of independent inquiry into the killings in Conakry...

Jaynet was appointed Honorary Consul in October 2005 by Foreign Minister Ban Ki-moon who went on to become Secretary General of the United Nations in 2007...

UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon in a 12 March press conference said that Chinese Foreign Minister Yang Jiechi had 'commented that they would do all what they could do to influence upon President Beshir'...

He joined UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon to call for more troops for the UN's mission in Congo-Kinshasa...

It reacted fiercely to all those including UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon who dared to question the regime’s preparedness...

That would greatly embarrass UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon who has staked his position on a credible UN operation in Sudan...

UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon was asked to strengthen the UN mandate and to give Monuc what it needs for its task...

Diaz de Villegas and Alan Doss UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon’s Special Representative in Congo-Kinshasa flew to Brussels on 24 October to ask the EU and USA for more troops: they said the current force of 5-6 000 UN soldiers in Kivu was inadequate to control an area the size of Belgium...

After five days of grand summitry in New York last week United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon was able to announce that US$16 billion had been raised in aid pledges to help the world's poorest countries achieve more of the UN's eight anti-poverty targets - the Millennium Development Goals - by 2015...