The flagpole was borrowed from Mauritius for the ceremony, but that didn't detract from the significance of the event or the enthusiasm of the Secretary General Ban Ki-moon.

旗杆是为了这次仪式从毛里求斯借来的，但是这丝毫不能削减该事件的重要性，也不能削减秘书长潘基文的激情。

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The idea has "a whiff of desperation about it" is the consensus of the media buyers interviewed by AdWeek, writes that publication's Ki Mae Heussner.

《广告周刊》的基利•梅•赫斯纳称，该杂志采访了一些媒体买家，他们一致认为，这个计划“有点绝望的味道”。

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Like Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, China also hopes that the year 2009 will be a year of harvest for the Middle East peace process.

与潘基文秘书长表达的愿望一样，中国同样希望2009年是中东和平进程的“收获之年”。

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But U.N.Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said the targets are too far in the future and that more needs to be done sooner.

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But Ban Ki-Moon said Tuesday that the evidence is "quite clear" that humans are the main cause of temperatures rising faster than expected.

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U.N.Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon says he is relieved that the military operations in northern Sri Lanka have ended.

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This is despite the fact that KI's sales having fallen 5% a year for the last two.

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Just before the IWC meeting, when the issue first leaped into the media spotlight, the South Korean government indicated that the factory might not go ahead - but Barng Ki Hiok indicated that it will.

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So the President will speak at that event after Ban Ki-Moon and Chairman Jalil -- the President will be the first head of state to speak, and then there will be additional heads of state and delegation who will speak.

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