Former United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has challenged the Security Council to look backwards regardless of the deep rivalry and distrust, and urged it to choose leaders capable of ...

President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. and former United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon meet in Malacañang on November 11, 2025. (Courtesy: Presidential Communications Office) President Ferdinand ...

MANILA – President Ferdinand R. Marcos Jr. on Tuesday commended former United Nations (UN) Secretary General Ban Ki-moon for his continued advocacy and leadership in promoting climate resilience and ...

Kosovo President Vjosa Osmani, the former U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, economist Muhammad Yunus, fashion designer Reem Acra and philanthropist Amanda Schumaker were among the honorees at ...

WHEN THE Charter of the United Nations was signed, 80 years ago this week, President Harry Truman emphasised that the document’s value lay only in the will of governments to use it. “The job”, he said ...

Ban Ki-moon is a South Korean diplomat who was the eighth Secretary-General of the United Nations from January 2007 to December 2016. Before becoming Secretary-General, Ban was a career diplomat in ...

Chief Adviser Muhammad Yunus today (27 March) sought support and advice from former United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon for a smooth transition to democracy in Bangladesh. "We want to start ...

Name is pronounced Bahn Gi-moon, with the K uttered as a hard “g.” As a teen, he won a Red Cross-sponsored trip to the United States. He met President John F. Kennedy and decided then that he wanted ...

On 25 June 2016 UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon received an honorary doctorate from the University Paris 1 Pantheon-Sorbonne, a member of the United Nations Academic Impact since 2012. In his speech, ...