“As I approach the end of my term of office as the secretary-general of the United Nations, I am humbly submitting my name for consideration of the members of the Security Council for a second term,” Ban said in a letter to Gabon’s U.N. ambassador, Nelson Messone, who serves as this month’s council president, according to Reuters.
The 66-year-old former South Korean foreign minister has also sent a letter to the member states of the 192-nation General Assembly and 15-nation Security Council.
Ban, whose first term ends on Dec. 31, has been in his current post since January 2007. He said that during his term, the U.N. pushed climate change to the top of the global agenda and responded to humanitarian emergencies such as Cyclone Nargis in Burma, the earthquake in Haiti, and the floods in Pakistan.
He already had assurances of support from the United States and other important members of the U.N. Security Council.
