Former UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon  and others have called for it to be split up into smaller summits and ‘clubs of the willing'...
	 
    
    
    
    
        
	
	     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...
	 
    
    
    
    
        
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	    ' 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...