Sunday, October 21, 2012

Ban Ki-moon tells american youth to "look beyond america and serve the world" (Translation: forget about building a stronger america)

Click here for this in full @ Indy Star: http://www.indystar.com/article/D2/20121020/NEWS02/310200042/U-N-secretary-general-urges-students-look-beyond-U-S-?odyssey=nav|head&nclick_check=1

Ban Ki-moon is the first sitting secretary-general of the United Nations to visit Iowa.
Ban Ki-moon is the first sitting secretary-general of the United Nations to visit Iowa. / BILL NEIBERGALL/THE REGISTER

Young Americans should look beyond the United States to become citizens of the world, U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon told 500 Drake University students Friday morning.
“My message to you: See the world, serve the world, be a global citizen and shape the world we want,” Ban said in a presentation on international affairs.
Ban is the first sitting secretary-general of the United Nations to visit Iowa, he said. He came to Des Moines to address World Food Prize attendees Thursday night.
In the audience in Old Main’s Sheslow Auditorium were Sen. Tom Harkin of Iowa and U.S. Ambassador-at-Large Stephen Rapp, another Iowan.

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