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New York  - UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon

New York - UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon met Wednesday with a compatriot, South Korean President Lee Myung-bak, who promised to increase Seoul's participation in the United Nations commensurate with its economic resources.

The protocol obliged Ban to speak to Lee in English, which Lee received in Korean through a translator. Another translator gave Ban the English version of Lee's Korean.

The conversation went well, said Ban, who was South Korea's foreign minister until his election to the UN top position in January, 1997.

New York - Tuesday called for Cambodia's courts to deliver a verdict on the mass killings in the 1970s by the country's Khmer Rouge government, whose leader Pol Pot died 10 years ago.

Pol Pot led communist troops to topple the US-backed government in Phnom Penh in April, 1975, and launched a country-wide sweep to wipe pout the middle class and intellectuals, resulting in more than 2 million deaths from forced labour and extermination.

Kathmandu, Apr 8: United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon has urged political leaders of Nepal to ensure that the April 10 Constituent Assembly elections are “free, fair and credible,” and asked them to set a “historic milestone” in the peace process.

In a video message, Ban Ki-moon said that it is his "fervent hope" that the polls in Nepal achieve success.

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