Ban Ki-moon

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...

On 22 July the UNSG Ban Ki-moon offered three options for a follow-up UN presence: a small observer mission of up to 42 people most to be based in northern Ethiopia; a small military-political liaison office in Addis Ababa to help normalise relations; or the appointment of a new SG's Special Envoy to promote better relations...

Kikwete told United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon that the rebels had demanded US$8 million before they would agree to return home...

The United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon says this is only a first step towards tackling the global crisis...

Ban Ki-moon World Bank chief Robert Zoellick and the FAO's Jacques Diouf argue that today's crisis offers an opportunity to develop African agriculture...

Like Ban Ki-moon most argue that governmenmts must act: 'It can be tempting to let the markets work their magic...

Next week United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon is to deliver a report on the Ethiopian-Eritrean border dispute which Ethiopia hopes will break the logjam and deliver a diplomatic victory perhaps even sanctions against Eritrea...

Former security supremo Nafi'e Ali Nafi'e repeated this refusal just before Liu arrived lambasting UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon for having condemned Khartoum's recent aerial and ground bombardment of Western Darfur villages...

That position is harder to maintain given that the UN Security Council has been discussing the crisis and UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon was due in Nairobi on 1 February After its initially messy reaction to the crisis the European Union is coordinating its positions better urging the Annan talks to establish a government that is ‘representative of the will of the people of Kenya...

Perhaps with the combined mediation skills of Annan Ban Ki-moon and South Africa’s Cyril Ramaphosa in Nairobi this week both sides might be cajoled into more substantive talks unless the violence grows yet more awful...

He became Vice-Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade in 2004 under South Korea's then-Foreign Minister (and future UN boss) Ban Ki-moon...