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Ban Ki-moon is a South Korean politician and diplomat who served as the eighth Secretary-General of the United Nations between 2007 and 2016. Prior to his appointment as secretary-general, Ban was the South Korean minister of foreign affairs and trade between 2004 and 2006. Ban was initially considered to be a long shot for the office of Secretary-General of the United Nations; he began to campaig…
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I can see that the Western world has a different kind of expectation in its leaders, including the element of charisma.
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“Counter-terrorism efforts, asymmetric warfare, and the emergence of new threats and enemies cannot legitimise the loosening, or the outright dismissal, of rules that aim to spare civilians and limit harm to what is necessary to weaken the enemy.”
“I can see that the Western world has a different kind of expectation in its leaders, including the element of charisma.”
“After all, global warming had been his singular cause. This is the one issue on which he was most passionately identified,”
“It is an outrage that in our modern world, so many countries continue to criminalize people simply for loving another human being of the same sex.”
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“We hold the future in our hands. Together we must ensure that our grandchildren will not have to ask why we have failed to do the right things and left them to suffer the consequences. So let us send a clear and collective signal to people everywhere. Today, let the world know that you are ready to shoulder this responsibility and that you will address this challenge head-on.”
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“I want to become a diplomat.”
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MTV Lebanon: Damascus rejects the UN chemical weapons investigation team's mission to Syria as set by Ban Ki-Moon
MTV Lebanon: Ban Ki-moon calls Syria to cooperate with the chemical weapons inspectors
MTV Lebanon: Ban Ki Moon: We are awaiting Damascus’ agreement to send a UN chemical weapon inspection team to Syria
MTV Lebanon: Obama to receive Ban Ki-moon on April 11
MTV Lebanon: Ban Ki Moon warns NKorea "nuclear threats are not a game"
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Ban Ki-Moon was appointed as the Official Ambassador of the GEMS World Academy Model United Nations
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“25th anniversary of the neutrality of Turkmenistan”
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Awarded honorary doctor of the University of Bordeaux (2018).
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Career landmark: chairperson of the Ethics Commission of the International Olympic Committee (2017).
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Joined French president Emmanuel Macron in calling for a Global Pact for the Environment
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Ban and Heinz Fischer, former president of Austria, founded, and are co-chairs of, the Ban Ki-moon Centre for Global Citizens in Vienna
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Campaign: 2017 presidential candidacy speculation.
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Ban co-founded the nonprofit Ban Ki-moon Centre for Global Citizens
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Awarded honorary doctorate from Columbia University (2016).
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Awarded Order of Friendship (2016).
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Awarded Collar of the Spanish Order of the Civil Merit (2016).
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Awarded Grand Cross 1st class of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany (2016).
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“2016 must become the year of transformation so that together we can deliver on the achievements we made in 2015.”
In recognition of his advocacy for climate diplomacy during his tenure as UN Secretary-General, specifically for his role in negotiating the Paris Agreement
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“disproportionate volume of resolutions, reports and conferences criticizing Israel.”
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“as oppressed peoples have demonstrated throughout the ages, it is human nature to react to occupation, which often serves as a potent incubator of hate and extremism”
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Awarded honorary doctor of the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (2015).
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Awarded Humanitarian of the Year (2014).
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Won Medal of Honor of the Congress of the Republic of Peru (2014).
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Awarded Distinguished SNU Members (2013).
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Ban was accused of undermining the collective bargaining rights of The Staff Coordinating Council, the union representing United Nations staff
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Earned Gold Olympic Order (2012).
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“s first summit on humanitarian aid in order to”
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On what he termed "intolerance" in the Arab world
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And was replaced by Susana Malcorra of Argentina, who served as chief of staff from April 2012 to November 2016
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Won Medal of the Oriental Republic of Uruguay (2011).
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The last year of Ban's first term, and dominated his attention and public statements that year
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Awarded Dostyk Order of grade I (2010).
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Awarded Honorary doctor at the Nanjing University (2010).
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Honorary Doctor by the National University of Mongolia in 2009
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Career landmark: United Nations Secretary-General (2007–2017).
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“growing trend in international society, international law and domestic policies and practices to phase out eventually the death penalty”
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The Republic of Nauru raised the issue of allowing the Republic of China (Taiwan) to sign the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women
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“My French perhaps could be improved, and I am continuing to work. I have taken French lessons over the last few months. I think that, even if my French isn”
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“You are about to take over the most impossible job on earth”
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Is responsible for prosecuting the aforementioned senior leaders
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“As front-runner, I know that I can become a target of this very scrutinising process”
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Awarded James A. Van Fleet Award (2004).
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Ban replaced the resigning Yoon Young-kwan as foreign minister of South Korea under president Roh Moo-hyun
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Career landmark: Foreign minister of South Korea (2004–2006).
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Incoming president Roh Moo-hyun selected Ban as one of his foreign policy advisors
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Awarded Grand Star of the Decoration for Services to the Republic of Austria (2001).
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Not long after the United States had decided to abandon the treaty
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During the 56th Session of the United Nations General Assembly, South Korea held the rotating presidency, and to Ban's surprise, he was selected to be the chief of staff to general assembly president Han Seung-soo
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And a year later he was also elected as chairman of the Preparatory Commission for the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty Organization (CTBTO PrepCom)
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And then appointed national security advisor to the president in 1996
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Became Vice Chairman of the South-North Joint Nuclear Control Commission, following the adoption by South and North Korea of the Joint Declaration of the Denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula
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Ban became director of the United Nations' International Organizations and Treaties Bureau, headquartered in Seoul
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Received his first posting to the United Nations, as First Secretary of the South Permanent Observer Mission (South Korea became a full UN member-state on 17 September 1991)
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And now works for the Korea Foundation in Seoul
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With a bachelor's degree in international relations
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Ban Ki-moon met Yoo Soon-taek in 1962 when they were both in high school.
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Ban won an essay contest sponsored by the Red Cross and earned a trip to the United States where he lived in San Francisco with a host family for several months
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Says "a Secretary-General should refrain from accepting" any Governmental position "at any rate immediately on retirement
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Born 1944-06-13.
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We hold the future in our hands. Together we must ensure that our grandchildren will not have to ask why we have failed to do the right things and left them to suffer the consequences. So let us send a clear and collective signal to people everywhere. Today, let the world know that you are ready to shoulder this responsibility and that you will address this challenge head-on.
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