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Date:
Tue, 17 October 2006 11:05 WesternIndonesiaTime
Subject:
Newly Elected UN Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon
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South Korea's Foreign Minister Ban Ki-Moon speaks to the General
Assembly after officially being named U.N. secretary-general at the U.N.
headquarters in New York October 13, 2006. The U.N. General Assembly
approved Ban on Friday as the next U.N. secretary-general, a post he
will assume on January 1.
REUTERS/Keith Bedford (UNITED STATES)
Reuters
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U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan addresses the General Assembly before
his replacement is named at the U.N. headquarters in New York October
13, 2006. The U.N. General Assembly approved South Korea 's Foreign
Minister Ban Ki-moon on Friday as the next U.N. secretary-general, a
post he will assume on January 1.
REUTERS/Keith Bedford (UNITED STATES)
Reuters - Oct 13 1:09 PM |
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South Korean Foreign Minister Ban Ki-moon waves as he is escorted into
the General Assembly, after a resolution was adopted to appoint him to
succeed Kofi Annan as United Nations secretary-general, Friday, Oct. 13,
2006 at U.N. headquarters in New York.
(AP Photo/Stephen Chernin)
AP -
Oct 13 12:59 PM
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John Bolton, the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations speaks to media
after a security council meeting at U.N. headquarters, Monday, Oct. 9,
2006. The Security Council voted to recommend Ban Ki-moon, Foreign
Minister of South Korea, as the next Secretary-General of the U.N.
(AP
Photo/Seth Wenig)
AP - Oct 09 7:55 AM |
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South Korean Foreign Minister Ban Ki-moon makes a speech at a news
conference in Seoul October 9, 2006. Ban was formally nominated as U.N.
secretary-general on Monday, only hours after North Korea defied the
world body by announcing a nuclear test.
REUTERS/Kim Kyung-Hoon (SOUTH
KOREA)
Reuters - Oct 09 8:39 AM |
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The United Nations Security
Council will meet next Monday to formally endorse South
Korean Foreign Minister Ban Ki-Moon, pictured May 2006, as
its choice to become the next UN secretary general, its
president said.(AFP/File/Jung Yeon-Je)
AFP/File - Oct
03 5:38 PM |
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John Bolton -- the United States ambassador to the United Nations --
arrives at the Security Council in New York. The UN Security Council has
begun an emergency session to discuss North Korea 's nuclear weapon test
and the nomination of South Korean Foreign Minister Ban Ki-Moon as the
new UN secretary general.
(AFP/Stan Honda)
AFP - Oct 09 7:40 AM
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The 18-year-old Ban Ki-moon (2nd
L), South Korea 's Foreign Minister, listens to the speech
of the late U.S. President John F. Kennedy during a meeting
with international students at the White House while Ban
visited Washington through a program organized by the
American Red Cross in 1962.
EDITORIAL USE
ONLY KOREA OUT REUTERS/Foreign Ministry/Handout(SOUTH KOREA)
Reuters - Oct 09
5:38 AM |
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A handout picture shows South
Korea 's Foreign Minister Ban Ki-moon during his mandatory
military service in 1965-66.
EDITORIAL USE
ONLY KOREA OUT REUTERS/Foreign Ministry/Handout (SOUTH
KOREA)
Reuters - Oct 09
5:39 AM |
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South Korean Foreign Minister
Ban Ki-Moon smiles during a press briefing in Seoul, August
2006. Ban has come up on top in a second Security Council
"straw poll" to select a successor to UN chief Kofi Annan ,
the Chinese and Argentine ambassadors said.(AFP/File/Jung
Yeon-Je)
AFP/File - Sep
14 8:33 AM |
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South Korea 's foreign minister,
Ban Ki-Moon, seen here, won a third informal straw poll in
the United Nations Security Council to decide who will
succeed Kofi Annan as UN chief, diplomats said.(AFP/File/Stan
Honda)
AFP/File - Sep
28 9:16 PM |
Friday, Oct. 13, 2006 at U.N. headquarters in New York
acting on Security Council recommendation the U.N. General Assembly
officially appointed South Korean Foreign
Minister Ban Ki-Moon as the new Secretary General of the United Nations.
He becomes the second Asian man to hold such position after the previous
Burmese diplomat and the third Secretary-General of the United Nations,
U Thant, from 1961 to 1971.
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Date:
Tue, 17 October 2006 11:45 WesternIndonesiaTime
Subject:
Ban Ki-Moon Elected UN Secretary General After the Banowati Painting
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Ban Ki-moon, newly elected
Secretary General of the United Nations listens to greetings at the General Assembly at U.N. headquarters in New
York, Friday, Oct. 13, 2006. The General Assembly adopted a resolution
by acclamation Friday appointing South Korean Foreign Minister Ban Ki-moon to succeed Kofi Annan as U.N. secretary-general.
(AP Photo/David
Karp)
AP - Oct 13 1:02 PM
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Ban Ki-moon speaks in the General Assembly after his appointment as the
future United Nation Secretary General, New York, Friday, Oct. 13, 2006.
The General Assembly adopted a resolution by acclamation Friday
appointing South Korean Foreign Minister Ban Ki-moon to succeed Kofi
Annan as U.N. secretary-general.
(AP Photo/Bebeto Matthews)
AP - Oct 13
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Painting design of "Wayang Banowati"
( the real painting is not yet photographed ),
73 x 100 cm. |
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When I
began to work the painting of Wayang Banowati on May 2006, I was not
thinking about the candidates for UN secretary general.
Like
written in my letter to Paris Hilton "Two
New Paintings of Wayang Puppet": "..............on May 22, 2006,
I also began another painting about wayang, with ancient temple
Borobudurat the background. This is actually a similar painting with my
previous "Wayang Borobudur" painting, only this new one is smaller and
the wayang puppet is a female with the name Banowati........"
The
rather similar wayang Borobudur I made previously was in 2004, and I
have explained about this in my previous letter of "Wayang
Banowati, A Painting Descendant of Wayang Borobudur".
After Mr.
Ban Ki-Moon has been officially elected as the new UN secretary general
on October 13, 2006, now this painting has two historical moments
related to it, the "Two
Blue Teams at Final Match of FIFA World Cup 2006" and the name of
the new UN secretary general Mr. Ban Ki-Moon that like containing
the "ban" from Banowati.
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Date:
Tue, 17 October 2006 12:04 WesternIndonesiaTime
Subject:
Significance of the
"Ban", the "Tire"
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| Painting design
of Paris Hilton inside a car with me, the work
began in August 22, 2006, to commemorate the
August 31, 1997 car accident of Lady Diana in
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It was on
February 14, 2006, that the news about "South Korean Foreign Minister
Ban Ki-moon has declared his candidacy for the top job at the UN"
appeared in the media. Meaning that a few months before I began
the painting of Banowati, he has declared the intention to run for UN
secretary general position.
More than
a year earlier, on March 27, 2005, I also have mentioned the word "ban", an Indonesian word
for "tire", in the mailing list of my ex-senior high school friends. At
that moment I was informing my friends that my neighbor Mr. Riza
Fatrio, who works at the main dealer of Dunlop Tires in Indonesia, could
give lower price of tires for cars and motorcycles than at the shops.
Now after
he has been elected UN secretary general, for me it becomes like a
reminder that my intention to be in the same car with Paris Hilton like
in my painting "Paris RR Phantom" is within the view of UN secretary
general, because after all it is for the good of this world. A car would
be unable to go without tires.
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Last Updated:
Tuesday, 14 February 2006,
05:30 GMT
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S Korean minister enters
UN race
South Korean Foreign Minister
Ban Ki-moon has declared
his candidacy for the top job
at the UN, officials say.
Current UN Secretary-General Kofi
Annan steps down at the end of the year.
Mr Ban joins a number of other
Asian contenders, including Thai Deputy Prime Minister
Surakiart Sathirathai and Jayantha Dhanapala from Sri
Lanka. |
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Ban
Ki-moon has been involved in the six-nation nuclear
talks |
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There is widespread support for an
Asian to take over the leadership, in line with a UN
tradition of rotating the job on a geographic basis.
The last Asian to hold the post was
U Thant of Burma, from 1961 to 1971.
Mr Ban has previously served as
South Korea's ambassador to the UN, and has been the
country's foreign minister since January 2004, playing a
key part in six-nation talks aimed at ending North
Korea's nuclear ambitions.
He "has the ability and dedication
to make invaluable contributions to further the ideals
and values of the United Nations," Vice-Foreign Minister
Yu Myung-hwan told a news conference on Tuesday.
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Front-runners
Several other contenders have
already declared their bids for the post.
Thai Deputy Prime Minister
Surakiart Sathirathai has the backing of the Association
of South East Asian Nations (Asean), a grouping of 10
regional countries.
Sri Lankan peace negotiator
Jayantha Dhanapala is another strong candidate, as
former undersecretary-general for disarmament and a key
figure in peace talks with the Tamil Tiger rebels.
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Kofi Annan
is stepping down in December |
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East Timor Senior Minister for
Foreign Affairs Jose Ramos-Horta, former Polish
President Aleksander Kwasniewski and Latvian President
Vaira Vike-Freiberga are also in the running.
Analysts say there is much support
for an Asian leader among UN member states, in line with
an informal tradition that rotates the role on a
geographical basis.
But Washington's UN ambassador John Bolton said last
month that Kofi Annan's successor should be selected on
merit alone.
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Date:
Tue, 17 October 2006 12:36 WesternIndonesiaTime
Subject:
Ban Ki Moon, Another Reminder of "The Moon"
On September 16, 2005, I wrote a letter to
Paris Hilton with the title "Like
It Or Not, the Two Moons Have Landed", about the moment when she
made two round prints on her white dress she was wearing, that
eventually turned like two moons. It was like a sign related with my
promise to her
"If You’re Late, I’m Late Too". As if the two rounded print, the two
moons, representing she and I becoming zero.
The last name of new UN secretary general
Ban Ki-Moon happen to be Moon, like reminding me with that letter of
mine to Paris Hilton about the two moons.
A few years ago I often had a dream about
the moment when this world is going to end, whereas the sky turned dark,
and the moon became two moons. Of course it was just a dream. Yet
related with my relationship with Paris Hilton, maybe it has the meaning
of I have to turn the two moons, she and I, into one.
Maybe this
could be a part of
"My GR,........ Ameeen..........." for the good fo this world.
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