Mogens Lykketoft
- Ingvild Bode
- • August 28, 2017
The exhibition “HERStory: A Celebration of Leading Women in the United Nations” was held at the Unesco headquarters in Paris this summer, after it made its debut in New York last year. Designed to showcase the contributions of female…
- Categories: Secretary-General, Women
- Barbara Crossette
- • September 12, 2016
Government leaders from around the world are gathering in New York for the opening on Tuesday of the 71st session of the United Nations General Assembly, an event haunted by momentous crises demanding undivided attention and action from all member…
- Categories: General Assembly, Migration, Refugees, US-UN Relations
- Ingvild Bode
- • August 16, 2016
What personal qualities are needed to become a successful United Nations secretary-general? The 2016 campaign to select a new leader features many novelties in the UN’s history: an official list of candidates, public job interviews by the General Assembly…
- Categories: WORLDVIEWS
- Lori Silberman Brauner
- • August 5, 2016
With 11 candidates left in the race this year for United Nations secretary-general, the Security Council held its second straw poll on Aug. 5, showing a slight shift in levels of support by the council’s 15 members, but placing…
- Categories: Secretary-General
- Dulcie Leimbach
- • July 21, 2016
The first straw poll to test the support of Security Council members for candidates vying to become the next United Nations secretary-general occurred Thursday morning. The vote took place amid strong interest by global media who report on the…
- Categories: Secretary-General, US-UN Relations, Women
- Barbara Crossette
- • July 6, 2016
In a year when people who follow the United Nations are focusing on the election of the next secretary-general, the center of early action in that election has moved for the first time in history from the secretive deliberations…
- Categories: General Assembly, Secretary-General, UN Diplomats
- Dulcie Leimbach
- • June 28, 2016
In a narrow vote conducted over seven hours amid five rounds of inconclusive balloting between Italy and the Netherlands for an elected seat on the United Nations Security Council, the two nations decided to split the two-year term. Italy…
- Categories: Security Council
- Laura E. Kirkpatrick
- • June 20, 2016
The major contenders for one of the highest public offices in the world include the first possible female candidate for the position; a slightly aggressive (and that’s what his friends say about him) surprise candidate; and a socialist who’s…
- Categories: Secretary-General, WORLDVIEWS
- Barbara Crossette
- • June 7, 2016
The field of nine candidates campaigning formally to become the next United Nations secretary-general grew by two on June 7, when Miroslav Lajcak, Slovakia’s foreign minister, and Susana Malcorra, who holds the same position in Argentina, spoke in public…
- Categories: Secretary-General
- Barbara Crossette
- • June 1, 2016
The second crop of campaigners making a pitch to replace Ban Ki-moon in January is now being assembled, and it looks like the first declared candidate on the list may well shake up the race. She is Susana Malcorra,…
- Categories: General Assembly, Secretary-General, Security Council, Women
- Vesna Jaksic Lowe
- • May 25, 2016
Thailand said it had no enemies, while Kazakhstan pointed out it had voluntarily given up the fourth-largest nuclear arsenal in the world more than two decades ago. Sweden emphasized it was militarily nonaligned. Italy, the only Mediterranean candidate, said…
- Categories: General Assembly, Security Council
- Laura E. Kirkpatrick
- • April 19, 2016
This is not your grandfather’s election cycle. Will this be the year a woman is elected to one of the highest political positions in the world? What’s up with the surprise candidate gaining unexpected momentum? Can any candidate truly…
- Categories: Secretary-General
- Barbara Crossette
- • April 17, 2016
It was a week unprecedented in the history of the United Nations. From April 12 to 14, nine candidates for the office of secretary-general were put on a public stage in front of the world to make their cases…
- Categories: Secretary-General
- Dulcie Leimbach
- • March 29, 2016
The presidency of the United Nations General Assembly, a ceremonial position filled annually by the organization’s 193 member nations, needs to fling open its doors to basic transparency on its financing and staffing operations, says a new report commissioned…
- Categories: General Assembly
- Dulcie Leimbach
- • March 3, 2016
For the first time in United Nations history, officially announced candidates for the secretary-general race, underway this year, will be interviewed publicly in the General Assembly along the lines of a standard democratic election. Mogens Lykketoft, the Assembly president…
- Categories: General Assembly, Secretary-General, Security Council, Women
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