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United
Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon attends the 10th East Asia Summit at the
27th Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) summit in Kuala Lumpur,
Malaysia, November 22, 2015 © Olivia Harris / Reuters
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The UN Secretary General
Ban Ki-moon has called on Russia and the US to join their efforts to combat
terrorism. He told the annual East Asia Summit in Kuala Lumpur that terrorists
and ideology extremists must be "defeated in the name of humanity." "In that regard, we
need to unite. We need to show global solidarity to address the common enemy
of ISIL, Daesh, some other extremists and terrorist groups," Ki-moon said,
referring to Islamic State.
The
UN Secretary-General stressed that he "highly commended the leadership of
the Russian Federation together with the United States to address some of the
root causes of terrorism," Reuters reported.
