United Nations, Dhu-AlQa'dah 29, 1435, Sep 24, 2014, SPA -- U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon Wednesday called on global leaders to find “seeds of hope” in the crises around the globe that make it seem as if the world is falling apart. In his state of the world address that opened the U.N. General Assembly’s annual ministerial meeting, Ban pointed to the spread of deadly disease, the reemergence of Cold War attitudes, and so much of the Arab Spring going violently wrong. “But leadership is precisely about finding the seeds of hope and nurturing them into something bigger,” Ban said in his address. “That is our duty. That is my call to you today.” The U.N. chief cited many crises – from beheadings and the use of barrel bombs in Syria to the volatile situation in Ukraine and Boko Haram’s “murderous onslaught” in Nigeria. “Hope may be hard to discern, but it is there. In clinics, classrooms, and other places far from the spotlight, the development agenda is making remarkable progress,” Ban said. --More 19:10 LOCAL TIME 16:10 GMT www.spa.gov.sa/w