UNITED NATIONS - Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on Wednesday welcomed the reduction in attacks across Iraq and called for similar improvements in the political arena.
His report to the U.N. Security Council echoed the message that U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice brought Iraq's leader during a visit Tuesday, warning that the cut in violence could be fleeting if the country's main groups did not reach an agreement on the future of the country.
The secretary-general cautioned, however, that attacks causing mass casualties "are a sobering reminder that those using terrorism in pursuit of their political aims have no regard for human rights or human life."
Did Kofi Anan, the previous Secretary General, condemn terror like this? If I recall, Kofi's condemnations of terror managed to toss in a little Israel-bashing, but maybe that's my bad memory.
