United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon (2nd R) speaks with Bernard Kouchner (R), Foreign Minister of France, US actor Michael Douglas (L), UN Messenger of Peace and Taib Fassi Fihri (2nd L), Foreign Minister of Morocco after the opening of the Conference on Facilitating the Entry into Force of the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty on the sidelines of the United Nations General Assembly September 24, 2009 at UN headquarters in New York. Getty Images logo Getty Images 1 month ago

United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon (2nd R) speaks with Bernard Kouchner (R), Foreign Minister of France, US actor Michael Douglas (L), UN Messenger of Peace and Taib Fassi Fihri (2nd L), Foreign Minister of Morocco after the opening of the Conference on Facilitating the Entry into Force of the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty on the sidelines of the United Nations General Assembly September 24, 2009 at UN headquarters in New York.

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