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U.N. Secretary-General says free speech must respect religion
2008-02-23 10:52:00 U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon reaffirmed his predecessor's line on cartoons of the Prophet Mohammad on Wednesday, saying free speech should respect religious sensitivities.
Iowans to decide on next Pope, UN Secretary general
2008-01-04 00:59:00 Iowans gather at Joe's Bait Shop and Grill to discuss the issues likely to confront the next leader of Ivory Coast. In a recognition of Iowans' good, mid-western common sense and dedication to wise leadership choices, the U.N. and Vatican have agreed to cede electoral responsibility for the next Secretary General and Pope, respectively, to state of Iowa. In the Iowa tradition of early campaigning, cardinals descended upon Tim's Railway cafe in Dubuque to acquaint themselves with the Iowa electorate. Meanwhile, former Singaporean ambassador to the U.N., Kishore Mahbubani, greeted customers in front of the Hot Dog on a Stick at the Coral Ridge Mall in Coralville, Iowa. See these girls behind me? They're huge! How'd they get that way? Rice? No, Corn. Not just any corn, either. Iowa corn. As U.N. Secretary General, I promise to swing some of that U.N. money this way. How does "oil for corn" sound? People in Mongolia will be eating your cobs! => Read more!
By: Asymmetric
Former ministry secretary general gets two years in jail
2007-11-12 12:19:00 The Criminal Corruption Court here Monday handed down a jail sentence of two years on former Justice and Human Rights Mnistry secretary general Zulkarnain Yunus for corruption. Zulkarnaen Yunus was found guilty of corruption in the procurement of an automatic fingerprint identification system (AFIS) which caused a loss of Rp6.4 billion to the state. Besides Zulkarnaen, the court also sentenced to three years the AFIS project chief, Apendi, who was also head of the ministry`s logistics affairs.The judge said an aggravating factor in Zulkarnaen`s case was that he was a justice and human rights ministry official with a good knowledge of the law. He was also viewed to have failed in his responsibility to check the performance of his subordinate.Indonesia News Blog: http://indosnesos.blogspot.com-
SECRETARY-GENERAL AT LAUNCH OF ‘STOLEN ASSET RECOVERY INITIATIVE
2007-09-20 07:34:00 Recource : http://www.un.org/News/Press/do-cs/2007/sgsm11161.doc.htm Secretary-General SG/SM/11161 Department of Public Information • News and Media Division • New YorkSECRETARY-GENERAL, AT LAUNCH OF ‘STOLEN ASSET RECOVERY INITIATIVE’, SAYS MEASUREIS MAJOR STEP FORWARD IN COLLECTIVE EFFORTS TO ADDRESS CORRUPTIONFollowing is the text of remarks by UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon at the launch of the Stolen Asset Recovery Initiative, in New York today:I am delighted to welcome all of you to the United Nations for this important event. The launch of the Stolen Asset Recovery Initiative is a major step forward in our collective efforts to address the serious problem of corruption.Corruption undermines democracy and the rule of law. It leads to violations of human rights. It erodes public trust in government. It can even kill -- for example, when corrupt officials allow medicines to be tampered with, or when they accept bribes that enable terrorist acts to take place.It is a ...
Is Disarmament Still "On the Level" at the UN?
2007-08-07 20:17:00 In a statement delivered in Hiroshima yesterday on the occasion of the 62nd anniversary of atomic bombing of that city, United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon declared:?Nuclear proliferation is one of the most pressing problems confronting our world. Tens of thousands of nuclear weapons remain, many of them on ?hair-trigger? alert. The emergence of a nuclear black market and attempts by terrorists to acquire nuclear weapons and materials have compounded the nuclear threat. Today, our challenge -- as it was for the founders of the United Nations -- is to make the world safer for succeeding generations. This requires us to continue to work towards a world free of nuclear dangers and, ultimately, of nuclear weapons.? The Secretary General?s words are laudable, but there is reason to believe the UN?s institutional commitment to disarmament could use added support.The statement was delivered by Sergio de Queiroz Duarte of Brazil who was appointed last month as the United Nations Hi...
By: Nukes on a Blog
UN Secretary-General Makes Climate Change Top Priority
2007-07-29 21:26:00 United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has called for urgent international action to slow global warming, marking it as a top priority of his tenure. Ban pointed out the devastation wrought in developing countries because of global warming's impacts. Those same countries don't have the resources to cope with the effects, and yet have contributed to least to the cause of the problem. Ban laid out a clear timetable for action while California recently to learn about the state's aggressive campaign to cut climate change emissions. The General Assembly meets this week to discuss the issue, and Ban will convene a high-level meeting on September 24th in New York. Negotiations will begin in Bali in December. Key to those negotiations is hammering out a plan for a post-Kyoto Protocol world. The framework expires in 2012, and Ban said a successor pact must be ready for ramification in 2009 to allow time for nations to pass it into law. Earlier this month, the Secretary-General...
UN Secretary-General Makes Climate Change Top Priority
2007-07-29 21:26:00 United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has called for urgent international action to slow global warming, marking it as a top priority of his tenure. Ban pointed out the devastation wrought in developing countries because of global warming's impacts. Those same countries don't have the resources to cope with the effects, and yet have contributed to least to the cause of the problem. Ban laid out a clear timetable for action while California recently to learn about the state's aggressive campaign to cut climate change emissions. The General Assembly meets this week to discuss the issue, and Ban will convene a high-level meeting on September 24th in New York. Negotiations will begin in Bali in December. Key to those negotiations is hammering out a plan for a post-Kyoto Protocol world. The framework expires in 2012, and Ban said a successor pact must be ready for ramification in 2009 to allow time for nations to pass it into law. Earlier this month, the Secretary-General...
UN chief hails start of Maoist army verification
2007-06-20 12:15:00 Kathmandu, June 20 (IANS) UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon has hailed the start of the operation to weed out child soldiers and illegal recruits from the Maoist guerrilla army, calling it crucial and asking all stakeholders to cooperate.
By: Latest News
UN Secretary General: Global Warming Causes Darfur Genocide
2007-06-18 03:13:00 New UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon zeros in on the reason for the massacres in Darfur: Climate change behind Darfur killing: UN’s Ban. How could we not have seen it before? It’s so obvious. UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon said that the slaughter in Darfur was triggered by global climate change and that more such conflicts may be on the horizon, in an article published Saturday. “The Darfur conflict began as an ecological crisis, arising at least in part from climate change,” Ban said in a Washington Post opinion column. UN statistics showed that rainfall declined some 40 percent over the past two decades, he said, as a rise in Indian Ocean temperatures disrupted monsoons. “This suggests that the drying of sub-Saharan Africa derives, to some degree, from man-made global warming,” the South Korean diplomat wrote. “It is no accident that the violence in Darfur erupted during the drought,” Ban said in the Washington daily. When Darfur&r...
UN Secretary General Ban lauds Nepal's peace process
2007-04-29 19:49:00 Kathmandu, Apr 29: United Nations Secretary- General Ban Ki-moon lauded the peace process in Nepal but also expressed concern over the management of Maoist arms and personnel.
By: newkerala.com
Secretary General Ban Ki Moon: global warming a threat to the world
2007-03-03 22:39:00 First Al Gore and now the boss of United Nations. One by one of the men with power points of the importance of fight againgst the climatechanges. Washington Post:U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki Moon argued Thursday that global warming poses as great a threat to the world as modern warfare, and he vowed to make reduction of greenhouse gases one of his tenure's top priorities.One and a half year ago I met Dario Fo in the Göteborg Book Fair.He said that the climate changes are the greatest threat of all against human beings and the planet Earth. I hope I dont lose the hope, I mean, we have heard this now for a while.Ban said that he would press the Group of Eight industrialized powers -- the United States as well as Russia, Britain, France, Germany, Japan, Canada and Italy -- during their June summit in Germany to take steps to reduce emissions. He has also been seeking to devise a diplomatic strategy for securing international support for a new treaty to replace the Kyoto Protocol w...
By: Global Viking
New Secretary-General of the UN mistakenly calls current dem
2007-01-15 05:19:02 New Secretary-General of the UN mistakenly calls current demand for peacekeeping unprecedented. Rather, the acquiescence to such demand is without precedent. Countries and tribes always clashed; civil and border wars are historical routine. Competition in power is the only way for international readjustments. Twenty-first century borders are no more fixed or eternal than the first-century ones. No country or tribe willingly gives away land or influence, but only in war or under a threat. Peacekeeping operations proved utter failure: at most, the empires arbitrarily redraw the borders to everyone’s discontent; usually, they only quash the violence and leave the fundamental problems to boil and eventually erupt. Frequent small clashes are replaced with huge bloody wars. Violence, like it or not, is indispensable to societal order. Would the US government like the UN peacekeepers to stop IRS from repressing tax evaders? The losing parties and weak, unsupported governments appea...
By: Samson Blinded
Media Stakeout Under-Secretary-General for Politic...
2006-08-23 22:48:01 Media Stakeout: Informal comments to the Media by the Under-Secretary-General for Political Affairs, Mr. Ibrahim Gambari, on the situation in the Middle East and other matters. [Webcast: Archived Video - file is real media format, running time is 7:35 minutes] FULL STREAMING VIDEO], BIOGRAPHY Ibrahim Agboola Gambari of Nigeria Under-Secretary-General for Political Affairs,Technorati Tags: State |
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