Rabat was happy when former Portuguese Prime Minister António Guterres was appointed UN Secretary General replacing Ban Ki-moon who had earned Moroccan enmity...
Both men are more trusted by Rabat than Guterres's predecessor Ban Ki-moon and his envoy Christopher Ross but Guterres seems in no position to break the impasse...
The United Nations is the next battleground where new Secretary General António Guterres has long experience of the conflict and is believed to be more sympathetic towards Morocco than his predecessor Ban Ki-moon...
Vol 58 No 1 |
- SOUTH SUDAN
' All changeIn one of his final acts before stepping down in December UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon appointed veteran New Zealand politician David Shearer as the new Special Representative and head of the UN Mission in South Sudan...
South Africa's notice of withdrawal to the UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon came next on 19 October shortly after Zuma's meeting with Kenyatta in Nairobi...
pdf Leaving with a whimper not a bang United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon is asking Burundi Gambia and South Africa to reconsider their withdrawal from the International Criminal Court...
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Having chastened Ban Ki-moon earlier this year for alleged partiality in the Sahara affair his successor as UN Secretary General António Guterres is someone Rabat has done business with when he was Portugal's Prime Minister and then UN High Commissioner for Refugees (2005-15)...
UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon responded by asking the UN Security Council to authorise an additional 2 049 troops and 480 police to take the total manpower to 13 289...
Vol 57 No 19 |
- SOUTH SUDAN
' Another UN team appointed on 23 August by UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon arrived in Juba on 9 September to investigate the Terrain attack and the peacekeepers' failure to respond to it and other sexual attacks...