Ban Ki-Moon Easily Wins Second Term as UN Secretary-General
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South Korea’s Ban Ki-moon pledged “results that change lives” after being appointed today to a second five-year term as secretary-general of the United Nations by the world body’s 192 member governments.
The General Assembly, acting on the recommendation of the UN Security Council, adopted by acclamation a resolution giving the former South Korean foreign minister a term that will begin on Jan. 12, 2012. Ban, 67, faced no opposition.