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Korean diplomat Ban Ki-moon became the first Secretary-General from East Asia on 1 January 2007, at a daunting time for international affairs. Ban Ki-moon desired to inject new momentum into the search for peace and stability in the Middle East, Afghanistan, Iraq, and to address the challenges posed by Darfur and Somalia, and the status of Kosovo. As a “middle of the road” man, as taught by Confucius, Ban Ki-moon tried to maintain harmonious relations in dealing with international affairs. His leadership style and results received criticism, but the Secretary-General was vindicated by the public support and acclamations by UN Member States for preserving the integrity of his office.
The sources for this book are UN documents, press releases and meetings coverage of the Security Council, General Assembly, Economic and Social Council , as well as other United Nations bodies. UN documents from the General Assembly, Security Council, Human Rights Council , Economic and Social Council and others are available on the UN documents website—https://www.un.org/en/documents/index.html—searched by symbol (e.g. A/72/1). Press releases and meetings coverage of the Security Council, General Assembly and other United Nations bodies are available on the website of the Meetings Coverage Section, United Nations Department of Public Information—https://www.un.org/press/en/advanced-search—under their symbol (e.g. SC/9021) or title (e.g. Press Conference by United Nations Special Coordinator for Lebanon) or/and date. The author has limited the facts of publication in the notes to a symbol, a meeting number and a date in most cases. The information on an access date and a URL is not referenced at each point as it is possible to positively identify and locate each source without them and accordingly to reduce the notes’ extent.
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Daily Press Briefing (hereafter DPB), 2 January 2007. The Secretary-General himself teased that he would not try to ban all that was not good for everyone. SG/SM/10836-NGO/609, 10 January 2007. Michele Montas, Spokesperson of the Secretary-General, clarified for the media how the new Secretary-General should be addressed: “Korean names formally begin with the family name followed by the given name, so his name should be stated as Ban Ki-moon . His surname is ‘Ban’ spelled b-a-n and pronounced ‘bahn’. His given name is Ki-moon, with a capital ‘K’, small ‘i’, hyphen and small ‘m-o-o-n’. The accurate pronunciation of that would be ‘gee-moon’.” DPB, 2 January 2007.
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SG/SM/18377, 16 December 2016.
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Kent J. Kille, From Manager to Visionary: The Secretary-General of the United Nations (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2006), 8–9.
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Kille, From Manager to Visionary, 9. A series on the former Secretaries-General (Gaglione, Firestone, Heller, Lankevich, Ryan, Burgess) and memoirs by current or former participants (Barros, Bolton) examines the institutional features and international dynamics, providing lessons for multilateralism.
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Kille, From Manager to Visionary, 9–10. The memoirs by former office-holders (Boutros-Ghali, Waldheim, Pérez de Cuéllar), participants (Brian Urquhart’s Hammarskjöld, Stanley Meisler’s Kofi Annan : A Man of Peace in a World of War), and others, illuminate office-holders legacies.
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Kille, From Manager to Visionary, 10–13. Kille connects six key personal characteristics—responsivity, belief that can influence, need for recognition, need for relationship, supranationalism and problem-solving emphasis—to the three ideal leadership styles—managerial, strategic and visionary, and undertakes three detailed case studies to explore the behavioral patterns of Hammarskjöld, Waldheim and Annan. See Kille, From Manager to Visionary, 13–255. In addition to Kille, Robert W. Cox, Akinrinade, Nabil A. Elaraby and others, provide additional views and reflections on office-holders personality.
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GA/10514, 31st Meeting (PM), 13 October 2006.
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SG/SM/15702, 11 March 2014.
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SG/SM/15702, 11 March 2014; SG/SM/18359-GA/11873, 12 December 2016.
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DPB, 11 January 2007; DPB, 31 January 2007.
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DPB, 2 January 2007.
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DPB, 11 January 2007; DPB, 18 June 2008; SG/SM/11091, Press Conference by Secretary-General, 16 July 2007; Press conference on general debate of General Assembly’s sixty-third session, 29 September 2008.
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SG/SM/11094, 17 July 2007; SG/SM/12306, 11 June 2009; SG/SM/12131, 10 March 2009; SG/SM/12133, 12 March 2009; SG/SM/18377, 16 December 2016.
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SG/SM/13622, 6 June 2011; GA/11102, 101st Meeting (PM), 21 June 2011.
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GA/11102, 101st Meeting (PM), 21 June 2011.
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SC/12626, 7836th Meeting (AM), 14 December 2016.
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Jesenský, M. (2019). Introduction: I Will Not Ban Anything. In: The United Nations under Ban Ki-moon. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-12220-1_1
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