Restoring the Vitality of the United Nations [Rush Transcript; Federal News Service, Inc.]
Ban Ki-Moon, an official candidate to succeed Kofi Annan as secretary-general of the United Nations, shares his thoughts on the current state...
Speaker: Ban Ki-Moon, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade, Republic of Korea; candidate for the position of UN Secretary-General
Presider: Warren M. Hoge, Foreign Affairs Correspondent at the UN, New York Times
May 31, 2006
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