KENYA: United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon visited U.N offices in Nairobi and held talks with staff members

Record ID: 361607

  • Title: KENYA: United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon visited U.N offices in Nairobi and held talks with staff members
  • Date: 1st February 2007
  • Summary: (BN12) NAIROBI, KENYA (JANUARY 31, 2007)(REUTERS) UNITED NATIONS (U.N.) LOGO VARIOUS OF THE FLAGS INSIDE THE UNITED NATIONS COMPOUND
  • Embargoed: 16th February 2007 12:00
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  • Location: Kenya
  • Country: Kenya
  • Topics: International Relations
  • Reuters ID: LVACJAFN820M64QMHG681NQIM7R2
  • Story Text: Members of the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) welcome the new United Nations (U.N.) Secretary General Ban Ki-moon to Kenya. Continuing his visit to Africa, Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon travelled to Kenya and visited one of the biggest slums in Africa, where he urged residents not to lose hope and pledged to work harder than ever to eradicate global poverty and other social ills.
    On the second day of his visit in Ban was hosted by the director of United Nations Environment Programme, Anna Tibaijuka, and had the opportunity to meet with staff members.
    Before he came to Nairobi, Ban had travelled to Ethiopia to attend an African Union (AU) Summit. The first day of the two-day meeting was dominated by a dispute over whether Sudan should take the rotating chairmanship of the AU, promised a year ago, despite a flood of international condemnation of violence in its Darfur region.
    A group of senior leaders, working on the sidelines of the summit, managed to defuse the issue more swiftly than expected by handing the chairmanship to Ghana.
    Ban said unacceptable delays were preventing help reaching millions of victims of Darfur's bloodshed, but negotiations with Khartoum to deploy U.N. peacekeepers were making only slow progress.
    Earlier in the day he had held talks with Kenyan President Mwai Kibaki where he promised that the global body that he heads would assist African nations to attain millennium development goals.
    They also discussed the situation in Somalia where they both agreed there was need for Somalia Transitional Federal Government to embrace dialogue as a way towards realisation of reconciliation and peace in the war ravaged country.
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