The Ban Ki-moon Interview
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Ban Ki-moon served as Secretary General of the United Nations from 2007 to 2016.  He has written a new memoir "Resolved: Uniting Nations in a Divided World." We cover quite a bit of ground in this interview, including his perspective on what the covid crisis revealed about the UN, what can be done to bolster multilateralism today, his frustrations with the security council and advice he might offer to his successor Antonio Guterres.
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