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Bound to Fail; Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has taken on 'mission impossible.' Everything about The United Nations conspires against him.(Cover story)
Byline: Sebastian Mallaby (Mallaby directs the Maurice R. Greenberg Center for Geoeconomic Studies at the Council on Foreign Relations.)
On a celebrated Thursday in April 1953, the first secretary-general of the United Nations greeted his successor as he arrived at New York's Idlewild airport, now JFK. You are about to inherit "the most impossible job in the world," he told him. Half a century on, that warning still overshadows the heirs to the U.N. throne. Ban Ki-moon, the South Korean diplomat who stepped into the job in January, jokes that he has taken on "Mission: Impossible." This is the humor of the gallows.
Ban became the world's top diplomat ...
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