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If UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon were a puppet of the West, particularly of the US, as he is often criticized to be, he would ‘have supported the International Criminal Court and the Responsibility to Protect while on the hustings for the UN’s top job, nor would he have pushed so hard on climate change issues for two years of the Bush/Cheney [...]

He is actually ‘tougher than his mild diplomatic manner may suggest.’ He ‘can do a great deal to foment that global opinion’ and does not hesitate doing so. According to a poll conducted by the WorldPublicOpinion.org, he is ‘the second most trusted global figure after Obama.’ He heads the United Nations, the international membership club [...]

UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon warned that ‘the Arctic is warming faster than anywhere else on Earth’ and ‘could be ice-free by 2030.’ Ban recently visited the Polar Ice Rim in the Norwegian archipelago of Svalbard where he observed firsthand the impact of climate change on the Arctic. Ban promptly called on governments to achieve in the international [...]