Ban Ki-moon

Turkey is ready to cooperate with other countries against climate change, Environment Minister Fatma Güldemet Sar? said late April 22.

Signing the Paris climate agreement at the United Nations, Sar? said the signing ceremony was "a historic day for the world" and outlined measures the country would take against environmental change.      

Turkey is ready to cooperate with other countries against climate change, Environment Minister Fatma Güldemet Sar? said late April 22.

Signing the Paris climate agreement at the UN, Sar? said the signing ceremony was "a historic day for the world" and outlined measures the country will take against environmental change.

The election of a new UN Secretary General is "the toughest battle" Bulgaria is facing, President Rosen Plevneliev has said.

His words follow a New York meeting with UNESCO Director-General Irina Bokova, who was nominated by the Bulgarian government as the country's official candidate to take over from Ban Ki-moon as head of the global organization next year.

BELGRADE - The Serbian government will continue to push for regional stability, Serbian Deputy Prime Minister Zorana Mihajlovic said Wednesday after Croatian President Kolinda Grabar-Kitarovic complained to the UN over the acquittal of Vojislav Seselj by the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY).

BELGRADE - Serbian President Tomislav Nikolic will on Friday, April 22, attend the signing of the Paris agreement on climate change at the UN headquarters in New York.

President Nikolic will attend the ceremony at the invitation of French President Francois Hollande and UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, Nikolic's presidential press office said in a statement.

ZAGREB - Croatian President Kolinda Grabar-Kitarovic has written to UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon to express deep disappointment and concern over the first-instance acquittal of Vojislav Seselj before the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY), noting that it will have a negative effect on peace, reconciliation and good-neighbourly relations in the wider southeast E

Former Serbian Foreign Minister and UN General Assembly President Vuk Jeremic is the 9th candidate in the race for Ban Ki-moon's successor.

Jeremic is also the fifth candidate for the post of UN secretary-general from the former Yugoslavia.

Former Macedonian foreign minister and the U.N. General Assembly's 62nd president, Srgjan Kerim, has requested Turkey's support for his candidacy to succeed Ban Ki-moon as U.N. secretary general.

For the first time in the United Nations' 70-year history, candidates vying to become secretary-general will make their pitch for the job to world governments in hearings beginning next week.

Helen Clark, the former Prime Minister of New Zealand, has officially announced she is running for the UN Secretary-General's office.

Clark, who at the moment heads the UN Development Program, is seen as a strong rival to UNESCO Director General Irina Bokova. To date, the latter has been described as a "frontrunner" in the race.