U.N. SECRETARY GENERAL BAN KI-MOON TOURS MIDEAST
United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon (L) and Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas meet in Ramallah on March 25, 2007. (UPI Photo/Thaer Ganaim/Palestinian President's Office).
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