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 UNITED NATIONS (AP) - Call it a screen test for the United Nations' top job.
South Korean Foreign Minister Ban Ki-Moon's speech to the General Assembly on Thursday touched on just about every hot-button topic facing the world body, praised the man who Ban hopes to succeed and gave a glimpse of what his priorities would be.
"If the U.N.'s primary task in the 20th century was to curb interstate conflict, its core mandate in the new century must be to strengthen states and to preserve the interstate system in the face of new challenges," said Ban, considered the front-runner to replace Secretary-General Kofi Annan. "But our tools need sharpening."
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