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Article: SECRETARY-GENERAL CONGRATULATES BARACK OBAMA ON INAUGURATION AS UNITED STATES PRESIDENT; SAYS 'OUR GOALS ARE SHARED', NEW ERA OF STRONG PARTNERSHIP AHEAD

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January 21, 2009
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The United Nations Office of the Secretary General issued the text of the following statement:

The following statement by UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon was issued today in New York:

It is with great optimism that I congratulate Barack Obama on his inauguration as the forty-fourth President of the United States.

More than ever before, the challenges we face as a community of nations are global in scope. Economic uncertainty. Climate change. Pressing issues of peace and security, including disarmament and non-proliferation. The multiple crises of food, energy and human development. By their nature, these are issues that require strong and collective responses.

President Obama was explicit ...

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