Ban Ki-moon (UN Secretary-General), General Debate, 70th Session Address by H.E. Mr. Ban Ki-moon, Secretary-General of the United Nations at the opening of the general debate of the 70th Session of the General Assembly of ...
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Published 3 days ago on May 19, 2020 in the New York Daily Post
Most recently, Ban Ki-Moon was in the news about Prof. Gambari as a great asset to Nigeria' in his appointment as Chief of Staff to President Muhammadu Buhari of Nigeria.
"Your appointment is a great asset not to the President of Nigeria but also your country Nigeria and Africa in a broader sense.
"I am confident that your invaluable experience gained while serving the UN, with various important leadership roles, will help your leadership in addressing these challenging times. I shared this good news with the former Minister Yoo Chong-ha, your good friend and former Foreign Minister of Korea. He sends his warmest congratulations to you."
The 8th Secretary-General of the UN, who penned his congratulatory letter from his base in Seoul, South Korea's capital, said he looked forward to meeting his former colleague at the UN again, while wishing the accomplished Nigerian diplomat success on his new assignment. ______________
Ban Ki-Moon (born 13 June 1944) is a South Korean politician and diplomat who served as the eighth Secretary-General of the United Nations from January 2007 to December 2016.
Before becoming Secretary-General, Ban was a career diplomat in South Korea's Ministry of Foreign Affairs and in the United Nations. He entered diplomatic service the year he graduated from university, accepting his first post in New Delhi, India.
Ban was the foreign minister of South Korea from January 2004 to November 2006. In February 2006 he began to campaign for the office of Secretary-General. Ban was initially considered to be a long shot for the office.
As foreign minister of South Korea, however, he was able to travel to all the countries on the United Nations Security Council, a maneuver that turned him into the campaign's front runner.
On 13 October 2006, he was elected to be the eighth Secretary-General by the United Nations General Assembly. On 1 January 2007, he succeeded Kofi Annan.
As Secretary-General, he was responsible for several major reforms on peacekeeping and UN employment practices. Diplomatically, Ban has taken particularly strong views on global warming, pressing the issue repeatedly with U.S. President George W. Bush, and on the Darfur conflict, where he helped persuade Sudanese president Omar al-Bashir to allow peacekeeping troops to enter Sudan.
Ban was named the world's 32nd most powerful person by the Forbes list of The World's Most Powerful People in 2013, the highest among South Koreans.
In 2014, he was named the third most powerful South Korean after Lee Kun-hee and Lee Jae-yong.
In 2016, Foreign Policy named Ban one of the Top 100 Global Thinkers for his achievement of making the Paris Agreement being ratified and entering into force in less than a year after it was adopted.
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