Ban Ki-moon

UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon also fails to see any analogy with Côte d’Ivoire where ADO’s election was recognised by the UN and African Union...

Ban Ki-moon has already visited Gabon and congratulated President Ali Bongo on his victory...

His election-winning rival Alassane Dramane Ouattara has corralled a wide range of support discreetly helped by French and United States’ diplomats along with the good offices of UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon...

Secretary General Ban Ki-moon has talked vaguely of turning Amisom into a UN operation with 20 000 troops but no one thinks that will happen until Somalia’s own security forces are properly developed (when a UN force would not be needed anyway)...

Calling all Asian peacekeepers In early August United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon issued a call for Asian countries to participate in the South Sudan peacekeeping operation...

The proposal was backed by Said Djinnit the Commission Chairman and Special Representative of UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon...

In early November UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon told Chinese President Hu Jintao that ‘China could play a greater role in peacekeeping and in the search for political solutions to African crises including in Somalia and Sudan...

Kagame's other international friends - such as UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon British ex-Prime Minister Tony Blair and United States ex-President Bill Clinton - had no such reservations about glad-handing the Rwandan leader...

United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon called for a quick solution...

That will spare the UN another round of regional protests during the summit meetings on 22-23 September and save the very pressed Secretary General Ban Ki-moon the effort of more restorative diplomacy...

She was though much kinder about the current Secretary General Ban Ki-moon stating that he was leading the UN with ‘honesty integrity and transparency’...