Ban's Dogged Diplomacy Yields Progress on Climate, UN Overhaul
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Bloomberg - Dec. 27 (Bloomberg) -- Ban Ki-moon had left the climate- change conference in Bali, Indonesia, to visit United Nations peacekeepers in East Timor when he received an urgent call to go back. Talks on a new global-warming treaty were deadlocked.
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The key players in international efforts to curb North Korea's nuclear ambitions are picking up the pace in what has become a protracted ritual of talking about talks and discussing how to entice the North's recalcitrant government back into negotiations.
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THERE ARE occasions when symbolic gestures in the realm of diplomacy are worth making, and the UN Security Council resolution that Washington and Paris sponsored Thursday to denounce Syria&#39;s flagrant manipulation of Lebanese politics was one of those
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The global climate debate needs to embrace a "new way of thinking", UN Secretary General Ban Ki Moon urges.
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Major powers on Thursday made progress toward agreeing on new sanctions on Iran for its nuclear program and hope to have their U.N. ambassadors begin drafting a formal Security Council resolution next week, a senior U.S. official said.
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With tales of rising seas and talk of human solidarity, world leaders at the first United Nations climate summit sought Monday to put new urgency into global talks to reduce global-warming emissions.
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Agreement is reached at the UN climate talks in Kenya, after a deal on reviewing the Kyoto Protocol proved elusive.
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The latest US-led climate talks have been described as the most engaging climate negotiations so far.
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UNITED NATIONS -- When U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki Moon paid his first official visit to Washington last month, he received the White House version of a seal of approval: a presidential pat on the back and an invitation to phone President Bush whenever he needs help in responding to an international crisis....
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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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Russia&#39;s permanent representative to the United Nations, Andrey Denisov, left, shakes hands with UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan while Kenyan Nobel Peace prize winner Wangari Maathai, right, look on after they signed the Kyoto Protocol on global warming.
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The ice is melting and the heat is on for international delegates assembling in Buenos Aires next week to find new ways to confront global warming under the 194-nation treaty on climate change.
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The ice is melting and the heat is on for international delegates assembling in Buenos Aires this week to find new ways to confront global warming under the 194-nation treaty on climate change.
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Ban Ki Moon was sworn in today as the eighth secretary-general of the United Nations, and he pledged to "breathe new life" into an organization that has struggled with corruption and mismanagement scandals and in its response to the U.S.-led war in Iraq.
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South Korea's Ban Ki-moon formally takes the reins of the United Nations Thursday as the institution grapples with internal reforms, volatility in the Middle East and international standoffs over the nuclear ambitions of North Korea and Iran.
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Its landmark plan to battle global warming, approved with fanfare a year ago, is moving forward.
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Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon expressed hope that the U.S. will take a leadership role in combatting climate change &#151; which he said poses as much danger to mankind as war and is likely to fuel future conflicts.