moon said on Wednesday Syria's crisis was highly alarming and had “massive repercussions” for the world, as heavy fighting raged in the Syrian capital Damascus.
The uprising that began a year ago has transformed into an armed insurgency that is (...)
moon and the head of the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) are concerned at the possibility that Syria may have chemical weapons, a UN spokesman said on Thursday.
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moon called on Thursday for all sides to end the deadly violence in Syria and urged the international community to find a common response to the 11-month-old crisis.
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moon has used the approaching 10th anniversary of Sept. 11 attacks on the United States to renew his call for a global counter-terrorism treaty, which has been thwarted for a decade amid arguments over what constitutes terrorism.
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moon Monday announced a four-member panel, including an Israeli and a Turk, to probe Israel's deadly raid in May on a Gaza-bound aid flotilla.
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moon heads to global climate talks Tuesday warning that negotiators face a race against time to prevent the meeting ending in catastrophic failure after developing nations staged a five-hour walkout.
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moon Friday pursued an attempt to resolve a Spanish-Moroccan impasse over a hunger strike by a Western Sahara independence activist by raising the issue with Morocco's foreign minister.
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moon on Tuesday called for a 50 percent increase in world food output and other “bold and urgent steps” to confront spiraling prices at the start of a UN food security summit.
“I call on you to take bold and urgent steps to addres the root causes (...)