WASHINGTON - NOVEMBER 10: (L-R) Senate Homeland Security Chairman Joe Lieberman (I-CT), Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman John Kerry (D-MA), United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon and committee ranking member Sen. Richard Lugar (R-IN) hold a brief press conference after meeting at the U.S. Captiol November 10, 2009 in Washington, DC. Ban and the senators talked about what measures and actions the Senate may be willing to take before the climate change talks in Copenhagen in December. Getty Images logo Getty Images 1 week ago

WASHINGTON - NOVEMBER 10: (L-R) Senate Homeland Security Chairman Joe Lieberman (I-CT), Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman John Kerry (D-MA), United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon and committee ranking member Sen. Richard Lugar (R-IN) hold a brief press conference after meeting at the U.S. Captiol November 10, 2009 in Washington, DC. Ban and the senators talked about what measures and actions the Senate may be willing to take before the climate change talks in Copenhagen in December.

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  1. US- and Canadian-based Tamils protest near the US Capitol in Washington on November 20, 2009 to bring attention to the end of the 180-day period promised by Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapakse to UN Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon for the release of an estimated 300,000 Tamils held in government camps in Sri Lanka. Sri Lanka has released more than half of the thousands of displaced civilians held in the camps after the end of the country's ethnic conflict earlier this year, Human Rights minister Mahinda Samarasinghe said Friday. He said 136,328 men, women and children still remained inside camps across the island's north, down from some 280,000 at the end of the fighting in May with the defeat of Tamil Tiger guerrillas.
  2. United Nations (UN) chief Ban Ki-Moon listens during a joint press conference at the end of the first day of a World Summit on Food Security organized by the FAO on November 16, 2009 at its headquarters in Rome. The summit is bringing together more than 60 heads of states and government.
  3. United Nations (UN) chief Ban Ki-Moon gives a joint press conference at the end of the first day of a World Summit on Food Security organized by the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) on November 16, 2009 at its headquarters in Rome. The summit is bringing together more than 60 heads of states and government.
  4. Head of the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) Jacques Diouf (L) and United Nations (UN) chief Ban Ki-Moon give a joint press conference at the end of the first day of a World Summit on Food Security organized by the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) on November 16, 2009 at its headquarters in Rome. The summit is bringing together more than 60 heads of states and government.
  5. Head of the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) Jacques Diouf (L) and United Nations (UN) chief Ban Ki-Moon give a joint press conference at the end of the first day of a World Summit on Food Security organized by the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) on November 16, 2009 at its headquarters in Rome. The summit is bringing together more than 60 heads of states and government.
  6. (From L) Head of the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) Jacques Diouf, United Nations (UN) chief Ban Ki-Moon and Executive Director of the World Food Programme (WFP) Josette Sheeran give a joint press conference at the end of the first day of a World Summit on Food Security organized by the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) on November 16, 2009 at its headquarters in Rome. The summit is bringing together more than 60 heads of states and government.
  7. US Senator John Kerry (2nd L), Chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee, UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon (2nd R), and Senator Joesph Lieberman (L) and Senator Richard Lugar hold a joint press conference following a meeting on global climate change, where they discussed the steps leading up to December�s international negotiations in Copenhagen, on November 10, 2009 at the US Capitol in Washington.
  8. WASHINGTON - NOVEMBER 10: (L-R) Senate Homeland Security Chairman Joe Lieberman (I-CT), Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman John Kerry (D-MA), United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon and committee ranking member Sen. Richard Lugar (R-IN) hold a brief press conference after meeting at the U.S. Captiol November 10, 2009 in Washington, DC. Ban and the senators talked about what measures and actions the Senate may be willing to take before the climate change talks in Copenhagen in December.
  9. WASHINGTON - NOVEMBER 10: (L-R) Senate Homeland Security Chairman Joe Lieberman (I-CT), Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman John Kerry (D-MA), United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon and committee ranking member Sen. Richard Lugar (R-IN) hold a brief press conference after meeting at the U.S. Captiol November 10, 2009 in Washington, DC. Ban and the senators talked about what measures and actions the Senate may be willing to take before the climate change talks in Copenhagen in December.
  10. WASHINGTON - NOVEMBER 10: United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon (C) joins Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman John Kerry (D-MA) (L) and ranking member Sen. Richard Lugar (R-IN) for brief remarks and questions at the U.S. Capitol November 10, 2009 in Washington, DC. Ban and the senators talked about what measures and actions the Senate may be willing to take before the climate change talks in Copenhagen in December.
  11. WASHINGTON - NOVEMBER 10: United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon (L) makes brief remarks after meeting with Senate Foreign Relations Committee ranking member Sen. Richard Lugar (R-IN) (2nd L) and other committee members at the U.S. Capitol November 10, 2009 in Washington, DC. Ban and the senators talked about what measures and actions the Senate may be willing to take before the climate change talks in Copenhagen in December.
  12. WASHINGTON - NOVEMBER 10: United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon (C) makes brief remarks after meeting with Senate Homeland Security Chairman Joe Lieberman (I-CT), Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman John Kerry (D-MA) and committee ranking member Sen. Richard Lugar (R-IN) at the U.S. Capitol November 10, 2009 in Washington, DC. Ban and the senators talked about what measures and actions the Senate may be willing to take before the climate change talks in Copenhagen in December.
  13. Afghan opposition candidate Abdullah Abdullah (R) shakes hands with United Nations chief Ban Ki-moon (C) as United Nation's special envoy to Afghanistan, Kai Eide (L, background) looks on prior to a meeting in Kabul on November 2, 2009. UN chief Ban Ki-moon flew into Kabul on November 2 to meet President Hamid Karzai over the Afghan election crisis with organisers to announce whether or not to scrap the poll after the only challenger pulled out. The surprise visit from Ban accompanied a diplomatic push to ensure the November 7 one-horse race does not take place, despite the initial insistence from some officials that it is too late to halt the process.
  14. Palestinian and UN vehicles take a flooded street following heavy rains in the al-Shati refugee camp in Gaza City on October 29, 2009. Hamas said it will ban the organisation of elections in its Gaza Strip stronghold after president Mahmud Abbas called for a vote in the Palestinian territories.
  15. UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon (C) meets with French senatorial delegation members, Senator of Val-d'Oise Robert Hue (2ndL), Senator of Morbihan Josselin de Rohan (2ndR), Senator of Meurthe-et-Moselle Daniel Renier (R) and Secretary General of the French Delegates for the 64th Session of the General Assembly Philippe Thiebaud (L), at the United Nations headquarters in New York, October 28, 2009.
  16. 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.

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