GenevaLunch » Ban Ki-moon http://genevalunch.com Community Newspaper Online Fri, 25 May 2012 22:00:00 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/ Copyright © GenevaLunch 2010 editor@genevalunch.com (GenevaLunch) editor@genevalunch.com (GenevaLunch) http://genevalunch.com/wp-content/plugins/podpress/images/powered_by_podpress.jpgGenevaLunchhttp://genevalunch.com 144 144 Community Newspaper Online GenevaLunch GenevaLunch editor@genevalunch.com no no Ban Ki-moon to visit Bernhttp://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/10/10/ban-ki-moon-to-visit-bern/ http://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/10/10/ban-ki-moon-to-visit-bern/#comments Mon, 10 Oct 2011 14:16:37 +0000 Ellen Wallace http://genevalunch.com/?p=62326 GenevaLunch.com BERN, SWITZERLAND – UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon will be received in Bern 17 October by a Swiss delegation led by President Micheline Calmy-Rey, for an official working visit. It is the UN leader’s first official Swiss visit since April 2007. The agenda covers “a number of UN-related themes of mutual interest,” Bern says in its [...]

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]]> http://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/10/10/ban-ki-moon-to-visit-bern/feed/ 0 Ban pressures UN to move on Palestinian state demandhttp://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/09/21/ban-pressures-un-to-move-on-palestinian-state-demand/ http://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/09/21/ban-pressures-un-to-move-on-palestinian-state-demand/#comments Wed, 21 Sep 2011 14:49:05 +0000 Ellen Wallace http://genevalunch.com/?p=61703 GenevaLunch.com GENEVA, SWITZERLAND – Ban Ki-moon, UN secretary-general, opened the UN General Assembly in New York Wednesday with a plea to resolve the Israeli-Palestine impasse, saying that while Israel needs security, Palestine needs statehood. The remarks were made in the presence of US President Obama and Palestine’s President Mahmoud Abbas. The US insists that Palestinian membership [...]

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]]> http://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/09/21/ban-pressures-un-to-move-on-palestinian-state-demand/feed/ 0 Ban Ki-moon marks start of second term by honouring widowshttp://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/06/23/ban-ki-moon-marks-start-of-second-term-by-honouring-widows/ http://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/06/23/ban-ki-moon-marks-start-of-second-term-by-honouring-widows/#comments Thu, 23 Jun 2011 14:04:24 +0000 Ellen Wallace http://genevalunch.com/?p=59130 GenevaLunch.com GENEVA, SWITZERLAND – Ban Ki-moon was roundly applauded Tuesday in New York when the 15 members of the Security Council and 5 member-nations approved his second term, with no opposition, a rare honour. Thursday, the newly re-elected secretary-general turned the spotlight on the world’s estimated 245 million widows, more than 115 million of whom live [...]

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]]> http://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/06/23/ban-ki-moon-marks-start-of-second-term-by-honouring-widows/feed/ 0 Ban Ki-moon’s bid for 2nd term gets Obama boosthttp://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/06/07/ban-ki-moons-bid-for-2nd-term-gets-obama-boost/ http://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/06/07/ban-ki-moons-bid-for-2nd-term-gets-obama-boost/#comments Tue, 07 Jun 2011 13:49:32 +0000 Ellen Wallace http://genevalunch.com/?p=58577 GenevaLunch.com GENEVA, SWITZERLAND – The announcement 6 June by United Nations chief Ban Ki-moon that he will run for a second term was greeted positively Tuesday by US President Barack Obama, who says he will support Ki-moon. The UN’s Secretary General is unopposed at the moment. “Under Ban’s leadership, the United Nations has played a critical [...]

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]]> http://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/06/07/ban-ki-moons-bid-for-2nd-term-gets-obama-boost/feed/ 0 Fifa head says start of year, end of year are 2022 World Cup optionshttp://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/01/25/fifa-head-says-start-of-year-end-of-year-are-2022-world-cup-options/ http://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/01/25/fifa-head-says-start-of-year-end-of-year-are-2022-world-cup-options/#comments Tue, 25 Jan 2011 16:21:45 +0000 Ellen Wallace http://genevalunch.com/?p=52865 GenevaLunch.com Lausanne, Switzerland (GenevaLunch) - The world football federation (Fifa) is not ready to set dates for the controversial 2022 Qatar World Cup, but its president, Sepp Blatter, told journalists at the IOC (Internationasl Olympic Committee) in Lausanne 25 January that the Cup could be held at the start or end of the year. Fifa has [...]

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]]> http://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/01/25/fifa-head-says-start-of-year-end-of-year-are-2022-world-cup-options/feed/ 0 Haiti, Palestine projects top 2011 UN and Olympics listhttp://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/01/25/haiti-palestine-projects-top-2011-un-and-olympics-list/ http://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/01/25/haiti-palestine-projects-top-2011-un-and-olympics-list/#comments Tue, 25 Jan 2011 14:56:34 +0000 Ellen Wallace http://genevalunch.com/?p=52851 GenevaLunch.com UN Director-General Ban Ki-moon and IOC head Jacques Rogge meet in Lausanne Sports for peace projects include Olympics work on achieving MDGs Lausanne, Switzerland (GenevaLunch) - The heads of the United Nations and the Olympic movement met in Lausanne 25 January to review work they have done together since the UN gave the IOC observer [...]

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]]> http://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/01/25/haiti-palestine-projects-top-2011-un-and-olympics-list/feed/ 1 Cote d’Ivoire’s Gbagbo says he’s ready to talkhttp://genevalunch.com/blog/2010/12/22/cote-divoires-gbagbo-says-hes-ready-to-talk/ http://genevalunch.com/blog/2010/12/22/cote-divoires-gbagbo-says-hes-ready-to-talk/#comments Wed, 22 Dec 2010 11:11:11 +0000 Sean Ecker http://genevalunch.com/?p=51505 GenevaLunch.com Laurent Gbagbo, former president of Cote d’Ivoire, says he has invited the international community to re-evaluate his country’s contested election results and is prepared to sit down and talk with his rival, the internationally recognized winner of the elections, Alassane Ouattara. He said Tuesday 21 December that his demand that UN and French peacekeeping forces [...]

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]]> http://genevalunch.com/blog/2010/12/22/cote-divoires-gbagbo-says-hes-ready-to-talk/feed/ 0 UN envoy in Iraq escapes roadside bombhttp://genevalunch.com/blog/2010/10/20/un-envoy-in-iraq-escapes-roadside-bomb/ http://genevalunch.com/blog/2010/10/20/un-envoy-in-iraq-escapes-roadside-bomb/#comments Wed, 20 Oct 2010 08:17:28 +0000 Sean Ecker http://genevalunch.com/?p=48831 GenevaLunch.com The UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has condemned a roadside bombing on the convoy of the UN’s senior representative in the southern city of Najaf, Iraq, Tuesday 19 October. One person on the convoy’s security detail was killed and several others injured. None of the UN staff was hurt. Ad Melkert, the UN’s senior diplomat in [...]

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]]> http://genevalunch.com/blog/2010/10/20/un-envoy-in-iraq-escapes-roadside-bomb/feed/ 0 Human rights panel backs findings of excesses in flotilla raidhttp://genevalunch.com/blog/2010/09/30/human-rights-panel-backs-findings-of-excesses-in-flotilla-raid/ http://genevalunch.com/blog/2010/09/30/human-rights-panel-backs-findings-of-excesses-in-flotilla-raid/#comments Thu, 30 Sep 2010 09:11:33 +0000 Sean Ecker http://genevalunch.com/?p=47837 GenevaLunch.com Geneva, Switzerland (GenevaLunch) – The report by a panel that investigated the Israeli raid on a flotilla of boats aiming to land in Gaza in May has been endorsed by the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva. The raid by Israeli armed forces resulted in the deaths of nine Turkish activists, one of them also [...]

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]]> http://genevalunch.com/blog/2010/09/30/human-rights-panel-backs-findings-of-excesses-in-flotilla-raid/feed/ 0 IPCC climate group to have outside scientific reviewhttp://genevalunch.com/blog/2010/03/10/ipcc-climate-group-to-have-outside-scientific-review/ http://genevalunch.com/blog/2010/03/10/ipcc-climate-group-to-have-outside-scientific-review/#comments Wed, 10 Mar 2010 22:37:04 +0000 Ellen Wallace http://genevalunch.com/?p=38481 GenevaLunch.com Governments asked Ban Ki-moon and IPCC for external review Geneva, Switzerland (GenevaLunch) – UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon and IPCC (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change) Chair Rajendra Pachauri have asked the InterAcademy Council (IAC), a group of the world’s leading science academies, to review the scientific procedures of the Geneva-based IPCC. IPCC was created in 1986 [...]

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