Ban Ki-Moon

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Ban Ki-moon (Korean; born 13 June 1944) is a South Korean politician and diplomat who served as the eighth Secretary-General of the United Nations from January 2007 to December 2016.

Ban served as a career diplomat in South Korea's Ministry of Foreign Affairs and in the United Nations before becoming Secretary-General.

He started serving in diplomatic service in New Delhi, India, the year he graduated from university. Ban served as South Korea's foreign minister from January 2004 to November 2006.

In February 2006, he began to campaign for Secretary-General's office.

The prohibition was initially thought to be a long shot for the office.

However, as the foreign minister of South Korea, he was able to visit all the UN Security Council member countries, turning him into the campaign's front runner. He was elected eighth Secretary-General by the United Nations General Assembly on October 13, 2006.

He succeeded Kofi Annan on January 1, 2007.

He was instrumental in several major changes regarding peacekeeping and UN employment practices as Secretary-General.

Ban has taken particularly keen positions on global warming, speaking out against Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir and the Darfur conflict, where he helped convince Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir to welcome peacekeeping troops to enter Sudan in 2013.

After Lee Kun-hee and Lee Jae-yong, he was dubbed the third most influential South Korean in 2014.

Ban Ki-moon was named one of the Top 100 Global Thinkers for his achievement of making the Paris Agreement a legally binding treaty less than a year after it was approved by the General Assembly in October 2016.

Ban was widely regarded as a front-runner in the 2017 South Korean presidential election before announcing on September 14 that he would not run.

Ban Ki-moon Centre for Global Citizens co-founded in 2017 as well.

He also works as a Distinguished Chair Professor at Yonsei University's Institute for Global Engagement and Empowerment, the first major international diplomat to put a nascent effort by Democratic Party members in the United States to ban climate warming emissions and end poverty by the next decade.

Early life and education

Ban was born in 1967 in Haengchi, Wonnam Township (myeon), North Chungcheong Province (Insei), North Chungcheong Province, what was then Japanese Korea. His family then moved to Chungju, where he grew up. During Ban's youth, his father operated a warehouse business, but the warehouse went bankrupt and the family's lost its middle-class lifestyle. When Ban was six, his family escaped to a remote mountainside during a large portion of the Korean War. Following the war's conclusion, his family returned to Chungju. Ban has said that he met American soldiers during this period.

Ban, a student at Chiungshu High School, became a popular student, especially in his study of the English language. Ban won an essay competition sponsored by the Red Cross in 1962 and earned a trip to San Francisco with a host family for several months. Ban met President John F. Kennedy while on the trip. "I want to be a diplomat," a journalist at the meeting asked Ban what he wanted to be when he grew up.

In 1970, he obtained a bachelor's degree in international relations from Seoul National University, and 1985, he obtained a Master of Public Administration from Harvard University's John F. Kennedy School of Government. He studied at Harvard under Joseph Nye, who wrote that Ban had "a rare combination of analytic clarity, humility, and perseverance." Ban was granted the Doctor of Laws (Honoris Causa) by the University of Malta on April 22, 2009. He earned an honorary degree of Doctor of Laws from the University of Washington in October 2009, an honorary degree from the University of Cambridge in February 2016, and an Honorary Doctor of Humanities Degree from Loyola Marymount University in April 2016. He was named Honorary Doctor of Letters by National University of Singapore on August 30 for his lifetime of service to humanity. The National University of Malaysia awarded Ki-Moon an Honorary Doctorate in Global Peace and Sustainable Development in November 2019.

Ban is also a native Korean who speaks both English and French. "One of Ban's biggest handicaps, according to a former UN official, was his inability in English, which made it impossible for him to win over audiences in the United States and elsewhere." However, there have been concerns about the degree of his French proficiency, one of the United Nations Secretariat's two working languages.

Personal life

Ban Ki-moon was first introduced to Yoo Soon-taek in 1962, when they were both in high school. Ban was 18 years old, and Yoo Soon-taek was his secondary school's student council president. Ban Ki-moon married Yoo Soon-taek in 1971.

They have three children: two daughters and a son. Seon-yong, his elder daughter, was born in 1972 and now works for the Korea Foundation in Seoul. Her spouse is a native of India. Woo-hyun was born in 1974 in India. He earned an MBA from The University of California, Los Angeles, and works for an investment company. Hyun-hee (born 1976), his younger sister, is a field officer for UNICEF in Nairobi. Ban became a hero in his hometown, where his extended family now lives. Over 50,000 people attended the result at a soccer stadium in Chungju. Thousands of geomancy scholars went to his village to find out why it produced such a notable individual in the months leading up to his election. Ban himself is not a member of any church or religious group, and has declined to discuss his faith at this time: "Now, as Secretary-General, it will not be appropriate to discuss my own faith or faith in any specific faith or faith." So, we may have some extra time to address personal matters." His mother is a Buddhist.

Ban Ki-sang and his uncle Bahn Joo-hyun were charged in January 2017 with involvement in a plot to bribe a Middle Eastern official in connection with the attempted $800 million demolition of a building complex in Vietnam. In September 2018, Bahn Joo-hyun was sentenced to six months in federal jail in Manhattan.

Ban's nickname during his time in the South Korean Foreign Ministry was jusa (), which means "the administrative clerk." The name was both positive and sour, highlighting Ban's attention to detail and administrative skills while denigating what was perceived as a lack of charisma and subpoena to his superiors. For his ability to avoid questions, the South Korean press corps has nicknamed him "the slippery eel" (). His peers laud his understated "Confucian approach," and many think he is regarded as a "stand-up guy" and is known for his "easy smile." After taking over the United Nations secretary general's position, he was portrayed as "invisible man," "powerless observer," or "nowhere man" for his lack of charisma and leadership.

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Career

Ban received the highest rating on Korea's foreign service exam after graduating from university. He joined the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in May 1970 and worked his way up the career ladder during the Yusin period.

Ban's first overseas posting was in New Delhi, India, where he served as the consul and impressed several of his subordinates in the foreign ministry with his expertise. According to reports, Ban accepted a posting to India rather than the United States because in India, he would be able to save more money to send to his family. He was first posted to the United Nations in 1974 as First Secretary of the South Permanent Observer Mission (South Korea became a full UN member-state on September 17th). Ban took over the United Nations Division after Park Chung-hee's assassination in 1979.

Ban, the 1980s, became the head of the United Nations World Organisations and Treaties Bureau, headquartered in Seoul. He has been sent twice to the South Korean embassy in Washington, D. C., during the 1990 to 1992 missions. Following the joint Declaration of the Denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula's adoption by South and North Korea, he became Vice Chairman of the South-North Joint Nuclear Control Commission in 1992. Ban served as Korea's deputy ambassador to the United States from 1993 to 1994. In 1995, he was promoted to the position of Deputy Minister for Policy Research and International Organizations, and in 1996, he was named National Security Advisor to President George Bush. Ban's lengthy service in the United States has been credited with helping him escape South Korea's brutal political environment.

Ban was first deployed as Ambassador to Austria and Slovenia in 1998 and he was elected Chairman of the Preparatory Commission for the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty Organization a year later (CTBTO PrepCom). Ban's participation in the discussions was the largest blunder of his career, according to a public letter a positive mention of the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty, which came shortly after the United States had agreed to withdraw the treaty. President Kim Dae-jung, who also issued a public apology for Ban's remarks, fired Ban to save the nation's outrage.

Ban was unemployed for the first time in his career and was hoping to be given an assignment to work in a small and unimportant embassy. South Korea retained the rotating presidency in 2001 during the 56th Session of the United Nations General Assembly, to Ban's surprise, he was chosen to be the chief of staff to General Assembly President Han Seung-soo. In 2003, Roh Moo-hyun appointed Ban as one of his foreign policy advisors.

Ban appointed Yoon Young-kwan as South Korea's foreign minister in 2004 under President Roh Moo-hyun. Ban was confronted with two significant problems early in his tenure: Kim Sun-il, a South Korean working as an Arabic translator, was kidnapped and killed in Iraq by Islamic militants in June 2004, and hundreds of Koreans were killed in the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami in December 2004. When talks with North Korea began, Ban was scrutinized by senators and saw a decline in his renown. Ban became involved in problems relating to North-South Korean relations. At the fourth round of the Six-party talks in Beijing in September 2005, he was a key figure in the diplomatic attempts to endorse the Joint Statement on resolving the North Korean nuclear crisis.

Ban, the foreign minister, oversaw South Korea's trade and humanitarian policies. Ban placed himself in the position of negotiating trade agreements and assisting diplomats who would later be influential in his campaign for secretary-general. For example, Ban became the first senior South Korean minister to visit the Republic of Congo after the country's independence in 1960.

Ban declared his candidacy to replace Kofi Annan as UN Secretary-General at the end of 2006, becoming the first South Korean to run for the office. Despite the fact that Ban was the first to announce his candidacy, he was not immediately seen as a serious candidate.

Ban made ministerial visits to each of the fifteen countries with a seat on the Security Council over the next eight months. He topped all of the United Nations Security Council's four straw polls conducted on Saturday, September 14–28 September, and October 2nd, among the seven candidates.

Ban made major speeches to the Asia Society and the Council on Foreign Relations in New York City during the period in which these polls were held. To be effective, Ban must not only need to obtain the support of the diplomatic community but also be able to prevent a veto from any of the five permanent members of the council: People's Republic of China, France, Russia, the United Kingdom, and the United States. Ban was widely circulated in Washington for urging South Korean troops to Iraq and had the blessing of the Bush administration as he sought the position. Ban also opposed several US positions: he voiced his support for the International Criminal Court and favoured a completely non-confrontational approach to dealing with North Korea. Ban said during his campaign that he would like to visit North Korea in person to speak directly with Kim Jong-il. The ban was seen as a drastic contrast to Kofi Annan, who was regarded as a hero but also a poor manager in Iraq due to the UN's oil-for-food program.

Ban attempted to obtain France's permission. According to his official biography, he speaks both English and French, the two working languages of the UN Secretariat. However, he has often failed to respond to journalists' questions in French. Ban has repeatedly stated his inability in French, but has assured French diplomats that he was determined to continue his research. Ban remarked, "My French perhaps could be enhanced," he said at a press conference on Monday, and he is still working." I have taken French lessons over the past few months. And if my French isn't perfect, I'm sure that I'll continue to study it."

The South Korean campaign on Ban's behalf was getting more scrutinized as the secretary general election got closer. Many news outlets focused on his suspected conduct of repeatedly visiting all member states of the Security Council in his role as the Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade in order to gain votes in his favour by signing trade agreements with European countries and promising assistance to developing countries. "Renal rivals secretly groan that Korea, which has the world's 11th-largest economy, has abused its economic power to attract attention for his campaign," According to The Washington Post. These insinuations, according to reports, were "groundless." "I know that I can become a victim of this very scrutinizing process as a front-runner," he said in an interview on September 17, 2006.

Ban received fourteen favorable votes and one abstention ("no opinion") from the fifteen members of the Security Council in the final informal poll on October 2nd. The one abstention came from the Japanese delegation, who vehemently opposed the possibility of a Korean as the head of the Secretariat General. Due to the overwhelming support for the Ban by the majority of the Security Council, Japan later voted in favour of Ban to avoid controversy. Ban was the only one to escape a veto, and each of the other candidates received at least one "no" vote among the five permanent candidates; more importantly, the other candidates received at least one "no" vote. Shashi Tharoor, a second-place finisher, and China's Permanent Representative to the UN, told reporters that "it is quite clear from today's straw poll that Minister Ban Ki-moon is the candidate that the Security Council will recommend to the General Assembly."

The Security Council officially selected Ban as its nominee on October 9th. He was endorsed by all 15 members of the council in the public vote. Ban was proclaimed secretary-general by the 192-member General Assembly on October 13th.

The Economist listed the key problems facing Ban in 2007: "rising nuclear demons in Iran and North Korea, a crippling wound in Darfur, continuing conflict, growing international conflict, increasing domestic terrorism, the dissemination of HIV/AIDS." And then came more parochial concerns, such as the largely unfinished work of the UN's most radical attempt at reform in history." Kofi Annan told his successor, Dag Hammarskjöld, that when the first Secretary-General Trygve Lie left office, he told him, "You're about to take over the most difficult job on earth."

Ban became the eighth Secretary-General of the United Nations on January 23, 2007. With a flap, the ban's term was announced as Secretary-General. At his first interview with the Iraqi High Tribunal on January 2, 2007, he refused to condemn the death penalty levied against Saddam Hussein. "The question of capital punishment is for each and every member state to determine." The ban's remarks contradicted long-standing United Nations resistance to the death penalty as a human rights issue. He quickly clarified his role in the case of Barzan al-Tikriti and Awad al-Bandar, two top officials who were found guilty of the deaths of 148 Shia Muslims in the Iraqi village of Dujail in the 1980s. "Impstrongly advised the government of Iraq to provide a postponement of execution to those whose death sentences are likely to be carried out in the near future," he said in a tweet on January 6th. On the larger topic, he told a Washington, D.C. audience on January 16 that he understood and advocated the "increasing trend in international society, international law, and domestic policies and practices, which would lead to the death penalty."

Ban Ki-moon pleaded for the regime's top leaders on the tenth anniversary of Khmer Rouge leader Pol Pot's death, which took place on April 15, 2008. The Extraordinary Chambers in Cambodia's courthouses, which was established by both the United Nations and Cambodia and which became operational in 2006, is responsible for the criminal trial of the alleged senior leaders.

The UN Office of Internal Oversight Services (OIOS), which said the undercoverariat under Ban's leadership was "drifting into irrelevance," as the ban's leadership was "drifting into irrelevance."

Ban named the main members of his cabinet in early January. He selected Tanzanian foreign minister and professor Asha-Rose Migiro as his Deputy Prime Minister, delighting African diplomats who were worried about losing power without Annan in office.

Alicia Bárcena Ibarra of Mexico filled the top position devoted solely to management, Under-Secretary-General for Management. Since being named Annan's chief of staff, Bárcena was considered a UN insider. Critics said her appointment did not mean that Ban would make dramatic reforms to UN bureaucracy. Sir John Holmes, the British Ambassador to France, was named Under-Secretary-General for humanitarian affairs and coordinator of emergency response.

Bant said at first that he would delay making other appointments until the first round of reforms were approved, but later dropped this strategy after receiving backlash. In February, he resumed with appointments, selecting B. Lynn Pascoe, the United States ambassador to Indonesia, to serve as the Under-secretary General for political affairs. Jean-Marie Guéhenno, a French diplomat who had been Under-Secretary-General for peacekeeping operations under Annan, has stayed in office. Vijay K. Nambiar was nominated as his head of staff by Ban.

Many women were considered to have been voted into top positions in the United Nations, fulfilling a campaign pledge made by Ban to raise the role of women in the United Nations. More top positions were being handled by women in Ban's first year as secretary-general. Although not appointed by Ban, Haya Rashed Al-Khalifa, the president of the General Assembly, is only the third woman to hold this office in United Nations history.

Ban suggested two major changes during his first month in office: to divide the UN peacekeeping staff into two divisions and combine the political affairs and disarmament services. Members of the United Nations General Assembly who refused to endorse Ban's call for immediate approval reacted vehemently. Many in the developing world had sluggish comments that Ban planned to put American B. Lynn Pascoe in charge of the new office. The United States backed Alejandro D. Wolff, the then acting American ambassador, who said the US approved his plans.

Ban started extensive talks with UN ambassadors, agreeing to have his peacekeeping plan thoroughly tested after the early bout of reproach. Ban dropped his plan to pursue political issues as a result of the consultations. Despite the ban, the UN announced reforms on job conditions, requiring all positions to be classified as five-year positions, which would include thorough annual performance evaluations and reporting of financial information is made public. Despite being unpopular in the New York office, the change was welcomed in other UN offices around the world and applauded by UN observers. In mid-March 2007, Ban's plan to divide the peacekeeping force into two teams handling operations and another handling arms was finally accepted.

The United Nations Secretary General has the ability to sway opinion on virtually every global topic. Although unsuccessful in certain areas, Ban's predecessor Annan had a hand in raising the UN peacekeeping presence and popularizing the Millennium Development Goals. In addition to his stated interest in reforming the United Nations bureaucracy, UN observers were keen to see which topics Ban intended to focus on.

Ban has deferred to the Security Council on several critical topics, including proliferation in Iran and North Korea. In 2007, the Republic of Nauru raised the prospect that the Republic of China (Taiwan) will sign the All Forms of Discrimination Against Women convention. The United Nations General Assembly Resolution 2758 was referred to by the Ban, who opposed the motion. Taiwanese President Chen Shui-bian wrote to request admission to the UN by the name Taiwan on July 19, 2007. The request was turned down by the ban, who claimed that Resolution 2758 identified Taiwan as a member of China.

Global warming was one of the principal issues of his administration's early detection, according to a ban early on. Ban told Bush in a White House meeting with US President George W. Bush in January that he should take steps to curb greenhouse gas emissions. Ban emphasized his concerns about global warming in a speech to the UN General Assembly on March 1st. "For my generation, coming of age during the Cold War, the greatest existential threat on the horizon," Ban said. But the danger posed by war to all humanity and our climate change is at least linked to Global Warming, see the P.GW website. He emphasized his doubts at the World Climate Conference in Geneva on September 3, 2009, saying, "Our foot is stuck on the accelerator, and we are heading for an abyss." Ban joined protesters in New York City's People's Climate March in September 2014 and also called together world leaders for the UN Climate Summit in Paris in late 2015.

While Ban was on the first stop of a Middle East tour, he struck just 80 meters (260 ft) from where the Secretary-General was standing, disrupting a press conference in Baghdad's Green Zone and visibly shaking Ban and others on Thursday, March 22nd. In the shooting, no one was wounded. After its Baghdad headquarters was bombed in August 2003, killing 22 people, the United Nations had already limited its presence in Iraq. Ban, on the other hand, said that he still wished for the United Nations to "do more for Iraqi socioeconomic and political growth."

Ban traveled to Egypt, Israel, the West Bank, Jordan, Lebanon, and Saudi Arabia, where Ban attended a conference with Arab League leaders and spent several hours with Sudanese President Omar Hassan al-Bashir, who had defied UN peacekeepers in Darfur. During Ban's meeting with Mahmoud Abbas, the Palestinian president, he declined to consult with Ismail Haniya of Hamas.

On 10 March 2008, Ban Ki-moon chastised Israel for attempting to build housing units in a West Bank deal, citing the decision conflicts with "Israel's obligation under the road map" for Middle East peace.

Ban called for an immediate end to fighting in the Gaza Strip during a UN Security Council meeting on Wednesday, January 7th. He chastised Israel and Gaza for launching rockets into Israel.

Despite the fact that the 2009 Iranian presidential election was tense, Ban Ki-moon sent the Iranian president a traditional congratulation message on his inauguration. After the crackdown on nonviolent post-election demonstrations by the Iranian police, he remained silent over Shirin Ebadi's visit to Iran, which was perceived as a crime against humanity. More than 4,000 people were arrested and almost 70 people were killed, with some being detained in jail. Several well-known academics, including Akbar Ganji, Hamid Dabashi, and Noam Chomsky, embarked on a three-day hunger strike in front of the UN, including Akbar Ganji, Hamid Dabashi and Noam Chomsky, went on a three-day hunger strike. The incident was accompanied by a formal request from more than 200 scholars, human rights campaigners, and reformist politicians in Iran for the UN response. Ban Ki-moon, on the other hand, did not take any steps to prevent the violence in Iran.

The Libyan Civil War began in 2011, the first year of Ban's first term's first term, and it dominated his attention and public statements this year. Throughout the conflict, he advocated for negotiated solutions to the crisis. He has often condemned military involvement in Libya, believing that a diplomatic solution would be both feasible and preferable. However, he admitted that if second-leader Muammar Gaddafi declines to adhere to a cease-fire deal, the international alliance of military forces would have no choice but to intervene to safeguard the human rights of Libyans. In the conflict, the Gaddafi government was finally deposed and Gaddafi was killed, and the Gaddafi army was later disbanded.

Ban took his first foreign trip of his term to Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, in January 2007 as part of an attempt to reach out to the Group of 77. Darfur has consistently been identified as the highest humanitarian priority of his government. Ban played a significant role, with several face-to-face meetings with Sudanese President Omar Hassan al-Bashir, urging Sudan to allow UN peacekeepers to enter the Darfur area. The United Nations Security Council approved the deployment of 26,000 UN peacekeepers into the region on July 31, 2007 to replace 7,000 troops from the African Union. The decision was heralded as a major breakthrough in fighting the Darfur conflict (though the US called the war a "genocide" in response, the United Nations has refused to do so). In October 2007, the first phase of the peacekeeping mission began.

On May 25, 2008, Ban Ki-moon flew to Myanmar to lead a conference with international organisations aimed at raising funds for the country, which was struck by Cyclone Nargis on May 2nd. After Ban had met with Than Shwe, the leading figure in Myanmar's government, on May 23, 2008, the conference was initiated. Ban toured the devastation, particularly in the hard-hit Irrawaddy Delta, which took place between May 2008 and May 2008. Myanmar officials have agreed to allow the Yangon International Airport to be used as a logistical hub for humanitarian distribution.

Ban Ki-moon declared his candidacy for the second time as the UN Secretary-General on June 6, 2011. Following a meeting with the Asian group of nations at the United Nations, he declared his candidacy at a press conference. Ki-moon's first term as the Secretary General was due to come to an end on December 31, 2011. The five members of the National Security Council supported his candidacy. There had been no confirmed challenger for the position.

He was approved by the Security Council by a majority vote on June 17th, 2011; his nomination was confirmed by unanimous acclamation vote at the United Nations General Assembly on June 21. Secretary-General John Kerry's new five-year term started on January 1st 2012 and ended on December 31, 2016.

On March 2, 2012, Ban named Swedish diplomat Jan Eliasson as his new deputy secretary-general. Edmond Mulet of Guatemala is the Guatemala Chief of Staff. Ban's pledge to shuffle top positions in his organization for his second term was among his choices.

Ban has concentrated his public statements and speeches on Middle East peace and equality, as well as equality issues since his second term in January 2012.

Ban's attention was compelled by the aftermath of the Libyan Civil War and other events of the Arab Spring, which culminated in his second term. In 2012, he concentrated on "intolerance" in the Arab world. "Many countries in the Arab world, including Saudi Arabia, are changing," Ban said after flying to Vienna to participate in the opening of the KAICIID Dialogue Centre to promote interreligious dialogue. The Arab Spring has brought the leaders of their people to the forefront. In the Austrian press, he was also chastised for associating himself with a Saudi King Abdullah scheme, with Saudi Arabia being a spot of apparent religious intolerance.

Ban expressed his dissatisfaction with Israeli-Palestinian violence, including the lives of the Palestinian hunger strikers in Israeli jails and the Israeli roadblocks placed on Gaza Strip residents in 2012. Ban blasted Iran's leadership for making statements about Israel's devastation and denying the Holocaust on August 30, 2012. Ban Ki-moon said that the UN was biased against Israel in a meeting with Israeli students that showed a skewed perception of Israel and the Israeli government at the United Nations General Assembly on August 16, 2013. "It's an unfortunate situation," the actor said. He returned to the utterance a few days later. Ban said in an interview on December 16, 2016 that the UN has released a "disproportionate number of resolutions, research, and conferences condemning Israel."

Ban made a statement on January 26 in connection with the Palestinians' attacks on Israelis. "As oppressed people have marched, it is human nature to react to occupation, which often acts as a potent incubator of hate and extremism," Ban Ki-moon said. In rebuking Ban's address, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said that "there is no excuse for terror."

"Grave crimes against children have escalated dramatically as a result of the escalated conflict," Ban says of Saudi Arabian-led operations in Yemen. Ban Ki-moon removed a Saudi-led alliance from a list of children's rights of offenders in June 2016. Later, he revealed that Saudi Arabia threatened to cut Palestinian aid and funds to other UN programs if the coalition wasn't barred from the blacklist for killing children in Yemen. According to one source, there was also a threat of "clerics in Riyadh's meeting to issue a fatwa against the UN, abolizing it as anti-Muslim, indicating that there are no OIC members, no links, contributions, or assistance with any UN projects or programs."

Ban said on June 26, 2016, "Russia has a vital part to play" in global affairs "from ending conflict in Ukraine and Syria to safeguarding human rights and limiting mass proliferation." While Russia is the key player in a stumbling Ukraine and in keeping the conflict raging," Ukraine's UN envoy Volodymyr Yelchenko condemned his remarks, saying he has no idea how the UN chief "would say such things that kind of praise the role of Russia in settling the crisis in Ukraine." He also stated that Russia is suspected of human rights abuses in Crimea and that "building up the nuclear potential" on the peninsula.

Ban delivered a address on March 7, 2012, "The Time Has Come" to the United Nations Human Rights Council, urging the council to put more emphasis on combating homophobia and supporting LGBT rights around the world. A delegation of delegates, who arranged a walk-out demonstration during the address, attended the address.

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Ban has warned senior executives that homophobia will not be tolerated. He cited Ukraine, which has condemned public discussion of homosexuality as a threat to basic human rights. He also said that the government owes it to vulnerable minorities. In April 2013, he listed LGBT rights as one of the most important human rights of our time. Religion, culture, or tradition can never excuse the denial of basic rights, according to him.

The Geneva II Conference on Syria has been organising and moderating.

Ban announced on January 25 that he would attend the world's first summit on humanitarian aid in order to "share knowledge and establish common best practices." The World Human Rights Summit, which was held in Istanbul, Turkey, took place between the 23-25 May 2016 event. Ban's book titled 'One Humanity, Shared Responsibility' released on February 9, 2016, in which he laid out a "Agenda for Humanity" based on interviews with more than 23,000 people in 153 countries, in preparation for the summit. According to the Agenda for Humanity, what is needed to reform humanitarian action, including political leadership to prevent and end conflict, new ways of financing, and a shift from providing assistance to ending need are all included. The summit is projected to draw 5,000 people, including representatives from government, NGOs, civil society groups, and the private sector, as well as individuals affected by humanitarian crises.

"Some UN employees and delegates" protested Ban's apparent favoritism in the selection of South Korean nationals in key posts, according to The Washington Post. Former UN leaders such as Kurt Waldheim (Austria), Javier Pérez de Cuellar (Peru), and Boutros Boutros-Ghali (Egypt) each had small teams of trusted aides or clerical employees from their country's Foreign Ministry, and South Korean nationals were historically underrepresented at the United Nations headquarters. However, Ban had reportedly gone farther, boosting South Korea's presence in UN ranks by more than 20% during his first year in office, according to "some officials" in the Post article. Ban and his staffs responded to the allegations of favoritism are untru, and that some of the harshest criticisms of him relate to racial tensions. Choi Young-jin, who had already been serving as a top-ranking official in the United Nations' peacekeeping service, was highly qualified for their positions, according to him. Others, such as Donald P. Gregg, a former US ambassador to South Korea, believed the rumors were triggered by envy: "I believe being from South Korea, and South Korea has a growing admiration for South Korea, it's a major change for the secretary general." I think that's a plus if he brings along gifted people who know so well. According to UN reports, South Korea, the organization's eleventh-largest financial contributor, had just 54 South Korean nationals assigned to its mission six months before Ban took over the top UN position. Compared to this, the Philippines, a significantly poorer region, had 759 nationals in the country's mission.

After resigning her position in 2010, UN Under Secretary General Oversight Services Inga-Britt Ahlenius declared Ban Ki-moon, calling him "reprehensible." Ahlenius said that the Secretary General attempted to undermine the Office of Internal Oversight Services (OIOS) mandate and challenge its operational independence. In particular, the two opposed Ahlenius' proposal to recruit Robert Appleton, a former prosecutor who had carried out investigations into misconduct in UN peacekeeping missions from 2006 to 2009. Appleton's appointment was refused because Ahlenius had not properly considered female candidates for the appointment, not Ahlenius, according to Ban's employees, not Ahlenius. "For the Secretary-General to monitor appointments in OIOS is an infringement of OIOS's operational independence," Ahlenius wrote in her End of Assignment memo. Ahlenius' claims were described as "a deeply unbalanced account" by the Ban's chief, who also stated that "many relevant facts were ignored or misrepresented" in Ahlenius's memo. Ban "fully acknowledges OIOS' operational integrity, [but] does not excuse [Ahlenius] from using the mandatory recruitment standards."

Following Wasserstrom's dismissal from his Kosovo post and lengthy appeals process, American diplomat James Wasserstrom said that Ban attempted to limit the jurisdiction of the UN conflict tribunal. Despite repeated orders by the court to do so, the ban had declined to hand over classified information relating to the lawsuit to the UN personnel tribunal. Judge Michael Adams warned Ban for "willful disobedience" for refusing to hand over critical documents in a labor dispute.

Ban was accused of undermining collective bargaining rights of the Staff Coordinating Council, the body that represents United Nations workers. When the unions rioted, the union was able to lobby on behalf of the employees and ended negotiations.

In the United States District Court of Manhattan, a prohibition was imposed on behalf of Haitians with cholera. The 2010–13 Haiti cholera outbreak is thought to have been caused by UN peacekeepers from Nepal. The United Nations' legislative privilege before national courts should be upheld, according to the ban, but that does not diminish the UN's moral obligation to combat Haiti's cholera epidemic. Judge J. Paul Oetken dismissed the lawsuit in January 2015, claiming UN citizenship. In May 2015, an appeal to Oetken's decision was submitted to the Court.

In May 2016, British magazine The Economist, a British newspaper, called on Ban "plodding, protocol-conscious, and slew of skepticism to stand up to the big powers" and "the dullest—and among the worst” secretary-generals. Kiyotaka Akasaka, a Japanese diplomat, defended Ban's understated appearance as more Confucian, saying, "Ban's" behavior has been like that of the wise man, the sage of Oriental philosophy. According to one UN official, Ban will welcome world leaders in their native language but will then read directly from his talking points without small talk. "Quiet diplomacy?" the UN official opined, according to the UN official. He [Ban] had no talent for that." Nicholas Haysom, a South African lawyer, defended Ban, saying that the news media "caricatured [Ban] as invisible when he made outspoken claims that the media then refused to cover."

Ban was the leading candidate for President of South Korea in 2017 until the emergence of the 2016 South Korean political crisis. Moon Jae-in of Korea's top opposition Minjoo Party led the way with a support rating of 32.8 percent, while Ban trailed in second position with 15.4 percent. Moon was eventually elected president on May ten years ago. Despite Ban's repeated calls for voting, a UN resolution from 1946 states that "a Secretary-General should refrain from accepting" any government position "at any rate immediately after retirement." With the 1986 election of Kurt Waldheim to the post of President of Austria, however, there have been Exceptions to the rule, although the position is ceremonial in nature.

Contrary to Ban's public statements, private polls indicated otherwise. Kim Jong-pil, South Korea's former Prime Minister, was expected to announce his candidacy for the presidency shortly after his term as Secretary-General comes to an end. President Park Geun-hye's affair raised concerns about which party Bans will run under, but it was originally expected to run under the conservative Saenuri Party.

On January 13, 2017, the ban was restored to South Korea. He did not run for president on February 1st, and that he would not be a candidate for president.

The Ban Ki-moon Centre for Global Citizens, founded in Vienna, Austria, by Ban and Heinz Fischer, former president of Austria, and co-chairs. The non-profit group's goal is to help youth and women support the UN's Sustainable Development Goal frameworks. Ban became a member of The Elders, a human rights group made up of international statemen established by Nelson Mandela in June 2017. He became a deputy chair of the organization in November 2018, when he worked with Graça Machel jointly.

He joined French President Emmanuel Macron in calling for a Global Pact for the Environment in 2017.

Ban was elected to head the Global Green Growth Institute (GGGI), a treaty-based intergovernmental group, in early 2018. He is serving a two-year term in the same capacity as president of the assembly and chair of the council, beginning in February 20th.

The ban favors the Green New Deal by Democrats in the United States.

Ban Ki-Moon was appointed as the Official Ambassador of the GEMS World Academy Model United Nations in 2020. "A new generation of global citizens gives hope to humanity." News from the Gulf: The Gulf News is a newspaper distributed in the United Arab Republic. The Emirates of Abu Dhabi is a republic in the United Arab Emirates. Retrieved from January 25, 2020.

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