The secretary-general of the United Nations is the de facto head of the United Nations who oversees the United Nations Secretariat, one of the six principal organs of the United Nations, which also re
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The Secretariat Building is a 154-metre-tall (505 ft) skyscraper and the centerpiece of the Headquarters of the United Nations.
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Ban Ki-moon is a South Korean politician and diplomat who served as the eighth Secretary-General of the United Nations between 2007 and 2016. Prior to his appointment as secretary-general, Ban was the
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…Annan. He was confirmed four days later by the vote of the General Assembly. Annan and the UN were the recipients of the 2001 Nobel Peace Prize. 8 Ban Ki-moon (b. 1944) 1 January 2007 31 December 2016 10 years South Korea Asia-Pacific Ban was Foreign Minister of South Korea and became the first East Asian to…
Ban in 2016
Ban, left, with U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice in January 2006
Left to right: Peter Krämer, Yoo Soon-taek, Jaka Bizilj, and Ban at Sports for Peace in July 2010
Ban Ki-moon with the President of Russia Vladimir Putin in Moscow in April 2008