São Paulo – The United Nations (UN) secretary general, Ban Ki-moon, will leave New York next Friday for a tour of Latin America, including Brazil. He should also go to Colombia, Argentina and Uruguay, according to information supplied by the UN.
Brazil will be the last stop and in the country, the secretary general should meet with the president, Dilma Rousseff, the minister of Foreign Relations, Antonio Patriota, the president of the Federal Senate, José Sarney, and other government officials in the environmental and social spheres.
He should meet with the respective presidents of the other Latin American countries. Ban Ki-moon will return to New York on June 18. The secretary general has occupied the position since 2007. A native of the Korean Republic, the leader has a career spanning 37 years in the government of his country and the global scenario.
*Translated by Gabriel Pomerancblum
