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Ban Ki-moon on his relations with the press:

My relationship with the media will be crucial to my efforts to make the mission of the UN better known, and better understood, by people around the world.

Michele Montas, Spokesperson for UN Secretary-General Secretary-General appoints Michele Montas, an award-winning journalist from Haiti, as his Spokesperson. Prior to her appointment, Ms. Montas headed the French unit of UN Radio. In 2003-04, she served as the Spokesperson for the President of the General Assembly.


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The United Nations needs Japan to be even more active in our common efforts to mobilize international action on such challenges as climate change, the food crisis and the Millennium Development Goals.

Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, Tokyo, Japan, 1 July 2008