As UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon prepares for the final months of his position, the world is beginning to examine his legacy. The BBC's Laura Trevelyan spoke to him at the United Nations in New ...

W HEN 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 ...

Ban Ki-moon, who was secretary general of the United Nations from 2007 to 2016, said in Hong Kong on Tuesday that the conflicts in Ukraine and Gaza showed the need for a multilateral response.

Ban has many other issues on his plate, and it’s difficult to see how he is going to solve them before he steps down. He can, however, weigh in on a number of conflicts in Africa where the UN is a ...

NEW YORK, September 26, 2024 — The Honorable Ban Ki-moon, 8th secretary general of the United Nations, shares his insights on the intersection of the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and the ...

Former United Nations chief Ban Ki-moon expressed concerns over the current global situation and emphasized the global agency's crucial role in consolidating multilateral efforts to deescalate ...

The UN General Assembly formally elected South Korean Foreign Minister Ban Ki-Moon as the world body's eighth secretary general, to succeed Kofi Annan when he steps down in December.

Here are some of the United Nations' history-making events as the world body marks the anniversary of its founding on June 26 ...

United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon speaks at the Asia Society in New York on Friday, June 20, 2014. (Ellen Wallop/Asia Society) The following is a complete transcript of United Nations ...

The inaugural winner of the King Charles III Harmony Award was former UN secretary general Ban Ki-moon. The awards from the King's Foundation are a cause close to the king's heart. He's spoken about ...