Secretary-General


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United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon arrived in Turin on Thursday, 28 August, where the following morning he opened a two-day retreat with about 60 senior United Nations officials, Under-Secretaries-General and Assistant Secretaries-General coming from New York Headquarters as well as Geneva, Vienna and Nairobi.

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4 September 2008
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Biographical Note


BAN KI-MOON, UNITED NATIONS SECRETARY-GENERAL

 


Ban Ki-moon of the Republic of Korea, the eighth Secretary-General of the United Nations, brings to his post 37 years of service both in Government and on the global stage.

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3 September 2008
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Secretary-General welcomes launch of Cyprus negotiations


Following is the text of UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s message on the launch of negotiations on Cyprus, as delivered by Alexander Downer, Special Adviser to the Secretary-General, in Nicosia today, 3 September: