Lahore, Dec. 4: UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon telephoned President Asif Ali Zardari on Wednesday to discuss “the latest regional situation” and “other matters of mutual interest”.
The Daily Times quoted a private TV channel as saying that Zardari also discussed with the UN secretary general last week’s terrorist attacks in Mumbai, and the rising tensions between India and Pakistan.
New Delhi, Dec. 3 :UN Secretary General Ban Ki Moon extended his full support to India in its fight against terrorism.
Ban Ki Moon called up Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and agreed on the need for "full cooperation" by all to ensure that the perpetrators of Mumbai terror strikes are brought to justice.
He expressed his determination to provide a lead role for the UN in dealing with the global menace of terrorism.
DOHA, Qatar, Nov. 30 -- U. N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon opened a conference on development Saturday in Qatar by saying there is a global emergency.
Ban called on the World Bank and International Monetary Fund to shield developing countries that have managed to escape the global financial crisis, KUNA, the Kuwait news agency, reported.
"We also confront a development emergency and accelerating climate change," Ban said.
Doha - UN Secretary-General Ban Ki Moon on Saturday urged leading industrialized nations to not let efforts to control terrorism allow them to neglect the war on poverty.
Ban told delegates to the United Nations' International Conference on Financing for Development that the battle against poverty is just as important as the battle on terror. The conference is underway in Doha and set to conclude Tuesday.
He said he regretted that many world leaders had opted out of the convention, citing the need to focus on the effects of the financial crisis back home.
ABU DHABI, Nov. 29th, 2008: Secretary-General of the United Nations Ban Kin-moon today warned against social unrest and political instability arising from the current
global financial crisis and are likely to exacerbate all other problems facing humanity.
The financial crisis, which has hit all nations and "has brought an abrupt end to a long era of global growth, compounds other major threats: climate change, food insecurity,
the terrible persistence of extreme poverty," remarked Ki-moon.
New York - Half of Zimbabwe's 12 million people would require food assistance and some households have already cut back on the number of meals a day, UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon said Tuesday.
Ban said in a statement that the news from Zimbabwe was "distressing" because of the collapse of health, sanitation and education services in addition to an escalating outbreak of cholera.
Lahore, Dec. 4: UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon telephoned President Asif Ali Zardari on Wednesday to discuss “the latest regional situation” and “other matters of mutual interest”.
New Delhi, Dec. 3 :UN Secretary General Ban Ki Moon extended his full support to India in its fight against terrorism.
DOHA, Qatar, Nov. 30 -- U. N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon opened a conference on development Saturday in Qatar by saying there is a global emergency.
Doha - UN Secretary-General Ban Ki Moon on Saturday urged leading industrialized nations to not let efforts to control terrorism allow them to neglect the war on poverty.
ABU DHABI, Nov. 29th, 2008: Secretary-General of the United Nations Ban Kin-moon today warned against social unrest and political instability arising from the current 
New York - Half of Zimbabwe's 12 million people would require food assistance and some households have already cut back on the number of meals a day, UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon said Tuesday.
