Released: December 20, 2006

New UN Chief Heads an Organization That Faces Both Skepticism and Support

When Ban Ki-moon of South Korea placed his left hand on the Charter of the United Nations and was sworn in as its eighth Secretary General, he assumed control of an organization viewed with dramatically varying degrees of respect, skepticism and indifference by the countries of the world, according to surveys conducted by the Pew Global Attitudes Project.

Read the full analysis at pewresearch.org