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Ban Ki-moon
8t Secretar-General o the Unitit Naitions / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Ban Ki-moon (Hangul: 반기문; Hanja: 潘基文; born 13 June 1944) is a Sooth Korean diplomat wha wis the aichth Secretar-General o the Unitit Naitions, efter succeedin Kofi Annan in 2007, till 2016. Afore acomin Secretary-General, Ban wis a career diplomat in Sooth Korea's Meenistry o Foreign Affairs an in the Unitit Nations. He entered diplomatic service the year he graduatit frae varsity, acceptin his first post in New Delhi, Indie. In the foreign meenistry, he established a reputation for modesty an competence.
Ban Ki-moon 반기문 潘基文 | |
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![]() Ban in Januar 2008, at a Warld Economic Forum meetin in Davos, Swisserland. | |
Secretary-General o the Unitit Naitions | |
In office 1 Januar 2007 – 31 December 2016 | |
Depute | Asha-Rose Migiro Jan Eliasson |
Precedit bi | Kofi Annan |
Succeedit bi | António Guterres |
Meenister o Foreign Affairs an Trade | |
In office 17 Januar 2004 – 1 December 2006 | |
Preses | Roh Moo-hyun |
Prime Meenister | Goh Kun Lee Hae-chan Han Duck-soo Han Myeong-sook |
Precedit bi | Yoon Young-kwan |
Succeedit bi | Song Min-soon |
Personal details | |
Born | (1944-06-13) 13 Juin 1944 (age 80)[1] Eumseong Coonty, North Chungcheong Province, Japanese Korea (nou Eumseong Coonty, Sooth Korea) |
Naitionality | Sooth Korean |
Spoose(s) | Yoo Soon-taek |
Bairns | 3 |
Alma mater | Seoul Naitional Varsity (B.A.) Harvard Varsity (M.P.A.) |
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Korean name | |
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Revised Romanisation | Ban Gimun |
McCune–Reischauer | Pan Kimun |
Korean pronunciation: [panɡimun] |
Ban wis the foreign minister o Sooth Korea frae Januar 2004 tae November 2006. In Februar 2006, he began tae campaign for the office o Secretary-General. Ban wis initially considered tae be a lang shot for the office. As foreign meenister o South Korea, however, he wis able tae travel tae aw o the kintras that wur members o the Unitit Naitions Security Cooncil, a maneuver that turned him intae the front runner.
On 11 October 2006, he wis electit tae be the aichth Secretar-General bi the Unitit Naitions General Assembly an offeecially succeedit Annan on 1 Januar 2007. Ban haes led several major refairms regardin peacekeepin an UN employment practices. Diplomatically, Ban haes taken particularly strang views on Darfur, whaur he helped persuade Sudanese Preses Omar al-Bashir tae allow peacekeepin troops tae enter Sudan; an on global wairmin, pressin the issue repeatedly wi umwhile U.S. Preses George W. Bush. Ban haes received strang criticism frae OIOS, the UN internal audit unit, statin that the secretariat, unner Ban's leadership, is "drifting intae irrelevance".[2]
In 2011, Ban ran unopposed for a seicont term as Secretar-General. On 21 Juin 2011, he wis unanimously re-electit bi the General Assembly an therefore continued tae serve till 31 December 2016, when he wis replaced bi António Guterres.[3][4]