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- Dulcie Leimbach
- • September 26, 2016
António Guterres, a former prime minister of Portugal who most recently was the United Nations high commissioner for refugees, once more dominated the latest straw poll held by the UN Security Council on selecting the next secretary-general. The five-year…
- Categories: Secretary-General
- 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
- Laura E. Kirkpatrick
- • July 14, 2016
When it comes to the United Nations, the word “debate” takes on a civilized bearing, with no relation to heated contests among many sides. Over two nights this week at different settings in New York, UN secretary-general candidates campaigning…
- Categories: Secretary-General
- 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
- 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 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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