Tuesday, September 20, 2016

Last UN General Assembly For Ban Ki Moon

World leaders are gathering in New York for the annual United Nations General Assembly which takes place all this week.

It'll be the final time that Barack Obama attends as US President - and he's speaking to the gathering on Tuesday.

But it'll also be the last occasion that another leader takes part - Ban Ki Moon, the UN Secretary General, who ends his term on 31st December this year.

The process to choose his successor is well underway, but what kind of legacy has Mr. Ban left at the UN?

Volker Lehmann is a Senior Policy Analyst with the German thinktank FES and says Mr. Ban had to deal with a tough decade:

IN: Ban Ki Moon was...
OUT: ...who really could?
DUR: 26 seconds

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Volker Lehmann from the German thinktank FES says Mr Ban has been determined to push through some big changes:

IN: Many people would…
OUT: ...of these agendas
DUR: 32 seconds

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On the issue of Syria, German thinktank analyst Volker Lehmann says Ban could have done a little more but his hands were tied:

IN: He might have…
OUT: … in Syria
DUR: 30 seconds

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