UN climate envoy nominated as SKorean prime minister
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South Korea's incoming president on Monday made his first cabinet appointment, naming veteran diplomat and economist Han Seung-Soo as his prime minister.
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South Korea selects 30-year-old engineer Ko San for a mission to the International Space Station.
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One of the best appointments made by President Bush came last summer, when he selected former Missouri Sen. John Danforth to serve as this country&#39;s ambassador to the United Nations.
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The US secretary of state says she will appoint an energy envoy to monitor the use of oil and gas for political purposes.
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MOSCOW, October 27 (Itar-Tass) - The Federation Council, or Russian parliamentâs upper house, ratified on Wednesday the Kyoto protocol to the UN frame convention on change of climate.
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World leaders are set to take part in a special UN meeting in New York to discuss global warming.
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A straw poll at the UN puts Korean Foreign Minister Ban Ki-moon ahead in the race to succeed Kofi Annan.
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Two Norwegian parliamentarians have nominated former U.S. Vice President Al Gore for the Nobel Peace Prize for raising awareness of climate change.
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The Security Council was to hold a fourth straw poll on the next UN leader which will determine whether the front-runner, South Korean Foreign Minister Ban Ki-Moon, seen here in September 2006, has the backing ...Comment
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South Korean Foreign Minister Ban  Ki-Moon, who is poised to become the next head of the United  Nations, said he may visit North Korea in his new role to help  resolve a standoff over its nuclear ambitions.
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UNITED NATIONS, Sept. 28 -- The leading candidate to succeed Kofi Annan as secretary general of the United Nations, Ban Ki  Moon, South Korea's  minister of foreign affairs and trade,  has at least one potential advantage over his rivals in the election race for the world's top diplomat:
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South Korea might put forward a candidate  to take over from U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan when his  term expires in 2006, a South Korean official said Sunday.
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The race to succeed Kofi Annan as U.N. secretary-general may be as good as over, diplomats said Monday, with South Korea's foreign minister so far ahead of five other candidates that time was running out for anyone new to emerge as a serious challenger.
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Norway&#39;s Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg  has appointed Aaslaug Haga as the country&#39;s new Petroleum and  Energy Minister, his office said on Friday.
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South Korea's foreign minister kept his spot as the favorite in the race to succeed UN Secretary General Kofi Annan in an informal poll yesterday, the only one among the seven candidates to get the needed majority of votes. Ban Ki-Moon received 13 votes in favor, one against, and one no opinion, China's UN Ambassador Wang Guangya said. ...
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A straw poll at the UN puts South Korean Foreign Minister Ban Ki-moon ahead in the race to succeed Kofi Annan.
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Staffan de Mistura, a Swede who has worked at the U.N. for 30 years, was appointed Wednesday as the new U.N. envoy to Iraq.