UN Holds Third Informal Poll for New Chief United Nations
The 15-member council again tested eight contenders, with no frontrunner emerging and any nominee still needing nine votes and no veto from the five permanent members.
- The United Nations Security Council convened on Friday for a third straw poll to gauge popularity among eight candidates vying to succeed Secretary-General Antonio Guterres, though no results have emerged from the secret vote.
- With the Secretary-General's term ending in December, eight contenders seek the post, including Guyanese ex-foreign minister Carolyn Rodrigues-Birkett, Costa Rica's Rebeca Grynspan, and Argentina's Rafael Grossi, while several Council members prefer a female leader.
- Each of the 15 Security Council members anonymously assigns candidates one of three labels: "encourage," "discourage," or "no opinion." Ballots from the five permanent members use different colors to identify potential vetoes without revealing specific countries.
- A State Department official said Thursday that any new leader must get the United Nations "back to basics and publicly commit to the changes we require," rejecting what the official described as "politicized, woke ideology."
- Daniel Forti, head of UN affairs at the International Crisis Group, warned that prospects remain a "muddled picture," potentially allowing new contenders to enter before the General Assembly confirms the final choice.
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The UN Security Council meets this Friday for a new stage in the process of selecting the future UN Secretary-General The UN Security Council meets
No information has filtered out at the outset of the meeting, which took place for a little more than an hour, in camera. This process comes as the United Nations goes through one of the most difficult periods of its history, faced with a proliferation of conflicts, persistent divisions in the Security Council and serious financial difficulties. Five women and three men are trying to succeed the Portuguese Antonio Guterres, 77 years old, who wil…
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No results have yet emerged from the secret indicative vote which took more than one hour, with France's envoy to the UN and the Council's rotating President Jerome Bonnafont saying only "the third round of straw polls has taken place." No frontrunner emerged from the first two rounds of informal polls with eight candidates now vying to follow Secretary-General Antonio Guterres when his term concludes at the end of December. Several council memb…
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