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The Ban Ki-Moon Interview

June 14, 2021 by Mark Goldberg
United Nations Secretary-General-designate Ban Ki-moon addresses the General Assembly meeting after that body endorsed his appointment as Secretary-General-designate, at UN Headquarters in New York.

Ban Ki-moon served as the eighth Secretary General of the United Nations from 2007 to 2016.  He is out with a new memoir titled Resolved: Uniting Nations in a Divided World.

We cover quite a bit of ground in this interview, including his perspective on what the covid crisis revealed about the strengths and weaknesses of the United Nations, what can be done to bolster multilateralism today, his frustrations with the Security Council and what advice he might offer to his successor Antonio Guterres. We also spend a good deal of time talking climate change diplomacy, which was Ban’s signature issue as Secretary General. 

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Resolved: Uniting Nations in a Divided World, by Ban Ki-moon

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