Thursday, March 31, 2011

World faces ‘epochal’ change equivalent to that of 1989: UN chief

Speaking at the General Assembly, where he introduced an address by Italian President Giorgio Napolitano, Ban noted that the world is witnessing a period of revolution. He recently returned from a visit to Egypt and Tunisia, where long-standing regimes were toppled by a wave of pro-democracy protests that have engulfed much of North Africa and the Middle East, and have led to fierce fighting in Libya.

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