Boy with praise like this, Ban Ki-moon the likely new general secretary of the UN, could win the Woodrow Wilson, I'm the best thing to happen to public service since sliced bread was introduced at the commissary, Public Service "prize".
Just like our Steve, I've just sold Canada to the US Harper.
"But Yasuhiko Yoshida, a Korea specialist at Saitama University in Japan, does not see weakness as necessarily a drawback: "Ban lacks the toughness needed to reform the UN. But that is why he has been chosen ... a weak man is an appropriate choice. The best role that Ban can play is not a leader, but a good coordinator and harmoniser of views."
He described Mr Ban as "intelligent, polite, moderate and honest. In the past three years he has proved himself a very astute and sophisticated diplomat."
Paul Kennedy, professor of international history at Yale and the author of a recent book on the UN, said it was to some extent inevitable that the next secretary general would be a blank sheet, if only because the selection system is geared that way."
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