This United Nations ahndout photo shows UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon (L)as he meets July 3, 2009 with Senior General Than Shwe (R), Chairman of the State Peace and Development Council of the Union of Myanmar at the Bayint Naung Yeiktha. Getty Images logo Getty Images 4 months ago

This United Nations ahndout photo shows UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon (L)as he meets July 3, 2009 with Senior General Than Shwe (R), Chairman of the State Peace and Development Council of the Union of Myanmar at the Bayint Naung Yeiktha.

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  4. UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon (2ndL) meets with French senatorial delegation members, Senator of Val-d'Oise Robert Hue (L), Senator of Morbihan Josselin de Rohan (2ndR) and Senator of Meurthe-et-Moselle Daniel Renier, at the United Nations headquarters in New York, October 28, 2009.
  5. UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon speaks during a press conference at the United Nations headquarters in New York, October 28, 2009. Ban Ki-Moon condemned the 'despicable and brutal' attack on a UN guesthouse in Kabul, which left five UN staff dead, but said the UN remained committed to Afghanistan.
  6. UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon speaks during a press conference at the United Nations headquarters in New York, October 28, 2009. Ban Ki-Moon condemned the 'despicable and brutal' attack on a UN guesthouse in Kabul, which left five UN staff dead, but said the UN remained committed to Afghanistan.
  7. Myanmar's Prime Minister Gen. Thein Sein, right, talks with junta leader Senior-General Than Shwe, center, as second top leader Vice-Senior Gen. Maung Aye, left, looks on after Sein's arrival at Nay Pyi Taw Airport, Myanmar, Friday, Oct. 2, 2009. Sein returned home after attending U.N. 64th General Assembly.
  8. Myanmar's Prime Minister Gen. Thein Sein, right, is welcomed by junta leader Senior Gen. Than Shwe, center, and Vice-Senior Gen. Maung Aye, left, on his arrival at Nay Pyi Taw Airport, Myanmar, Friday, Oct. 2, 2009. Sein returned home after attending U.N. 64th General Assembly.
  9. Myanmar's Prime Minister Gen. Thein Sein, left, is greeted by junta leader Senior-Gen. Than Shwe as second top leader Vice-Senior Gen. Maung Aye, right, looks on after Sein's arrival at Nay Pyi Taw Airport, Myanmar, Friday, Oct. 2, 2009. Sein returned home after attending U.N.'s 64th General Assembly.
  10. U.S. Senator Jim Webb meets with Myanmar's Prime Minister Gen. Thein Sein (R) in Myanmar August 15, 2009. Webb met Myanmar's top military leader Than Shwe at the country's remote new capital of Naypyidaw on the second day of his visit and later talked with opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi for about 45 minutes at a guest house arranged by government officials in Yangon. Webb's office later released a statement saying American John Yettaw, who was sentenced to seven years hard labor by Myanmar's military government, would be released.
  11. U.S. Senator Jim Webb meets with Myanmar's Prime Minister Gen. Thein Sein (R) in Myanmar August 15, 2009. Webb met Myanmar's top military leader Than Shwe at the country's remote new capital of Naypyidaw on the second day of his visit and later talked with opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi for about 45 minutes at a guest house arranged by government officials in Yangon. Webb's office later released a statement saying American John Yettaw, who was sentenced to seven years hard labor by Myanmar's military government, would be released.
  12. U.S. Senator Jim Webb (L) meets with Myanmar's top military leader Than Shwe in Naypyidaw August 15, 2009. Webb met Than Shwe at the country's remote new capital of Naypyidaw on the second day of his visit and later talked with opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi for about 45 minutes at a guest house arranged by government officials in Yangon. Webb's office later released a statement saying American John Yettaw, who was sentenced to seven years hard labor by Myanmar's military government, would be released.
  13. UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon and Greek Premier George Papandreou (not pictured) give a press conference after their meeting in Athens on November 4, 2009. Ban is in Greece to attend the third Global Forum on Migration and Development Government meeting.
  14. UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon and Greek Premier George Papandreou (not pictured) give a press conference after their meeting in Athens on November 4, 2009. Ban is in Greece to attend the third Global Forum on Migration and Development Government meeting.
  15. UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon (L) and Greek Premier George Papandreou give a press conference after their meeting in Athens on November 4, 2009. Ban is in Greece to attend the third Global Forum on Migration and Development Government meeting.
  16. Greek Premier George Papandreou (R) listens as Secretary General of the United Nations Ban Ki-moon speaks during their press conference in Athens on November 4, 2009. The world urgently needs a climate deal out of a summit in Copenhagen next month to forestall forced migration that is already occurring in Asia and Africa, UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon said today at the 3rd Global Forum on Migration and Development Government meeting.

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