Sentence examples for which secretary general from inspiring English sources

Saudia Arabia gave $500 million to the World Food Program, which Secretary General Ban Ki-moon described as "of unprecedented size and generosity".

Mr. Eliasson said expectations had been lowered for the negotiations, which Secretary General Ban Ki-moon had hopefully termed "final talks" last month when he visited the area.

He said he expected the new global fund, which Secretary General Kofi Annan proposed in April, to start showing results by the end of the year.

The United States never agreed even to consider the mention of a force, which Israel has repeatedly rejected and which Secretary General Kofi Annan has described as unworkable without the consent of both parties.

1963 French to Veto NATO Study PARIS — The French government has decided to veto in the NATO Permanent Council plans which Secretary General Dirk U. Stikker is developing for a long-range strategic study of the defense requirements of the Atlantic Alliance.

But another increase to as many as 16,500 troops, which Secretary General Kofi Annan is expected to recommend to the council in the next few days, will represent a substantial commitment to bringing peace to Sierra Leone, even while rebels there are still holding more than 300 peacekeepers hostage.

The appeal follows a three-day UN Security Council summit on countering violent extremism, in which Secretary-General Ban Ki Moon warned leaders against discarding their "moral compass" and called for "cool heads and common sense" to combat the problem.

The United Nations issued a statement condemning the violence, after which Secretary-General Kofi Annan told the British representative to the UN that it expected the United Kingdom, as the former colonial power, to intervene in Sierra Leone directly, rather than relying on the international community.

Mr. President, the right to participation and free expression are essential ingredients of democracy - and as such, they are vital to the realisation of all human rights, which Secretary-General Kofi Annan has affirmed is at the very heart of the UN's mission.

About that "661 compliance committee," on which the U.S. has a seat and to which the secretary general now wants to pass the buck: a U.S. official familiar with its operation tells me that "its purpose was formally to approve what the U.N. staff recommended.

Alston had also been one of five experts working for the UN who earlier this year wrote a heavily critical letter to Ban in which the secretary general's resistance to accepting any responsibility was torn apart.