Susana Malcorra
- Dali ten Hove
- • May 3, 2021
The job of United Nations secretary-general is the “most impossible on earth,” as the first postholder, Trygve Lie, famously told his successor, Dag Hammarskjold. Though Lie spoke partly in jest to amuse the assembled reporters, the remark has stuck…
- Ben Donaldson
- • November 29, 2020
LONDON — This time five years ago, Mogens Lykketoft, the president of the United Nations General Assembly, was working with members of the Security Council to create the first open process to appoint the next secretary-general, after the adoption…
- Categories: General Assembly, Secretary-General, WORLDVIEWS
- Susana Malcorra
- • April 27, 2020
MADRID — The first two cases of Covid-19 infections here were identified on Feb. 26, 2020. That day, 23 people had become infected in Spain in less than 24 hours. Three days later, the number was 80. From then…
- Categories: Covid-19, Health and Population, SDGs
- Dulcie Leimbach
- • February 21, 2019
As multilateralism takes a beating from President Trump amid the “new world disorder,” as one European diplomat put it, three women who know the United Nations inside and out through previous top leadership jobs have originated a Group of…
- Categories: SDGs, US Foreign Relations, US-UN Relations, Women
- Laura E. Kirkpatrick
- • September 9, 2016
The latest Security Council straw poll pointing to the selection of the next secretary-general of the United Nations happened on Sept. 9, with the results leaving António Guterres of Portugal still the front-runner ever since the informal, anonymous balloting…
- Categories: Secretary-General, Security Council, US-UN Relations, Women
- 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
- 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
- Dulcie Leimbach
- • September 25, 2015
Pope Francis spread his gospel of not forgetting the poor at the United Nations on Friday morning, where he spoke in his native Spanish to the 193 member delegations and heads of state gathered before him at the General…
- Categories: Development, General Assembly, Poverty, SDGs, Secretary-General, Women
- Alice Volkov
- • December 20, 2012
The United Nation’s internal report on its role during the final stages of the prolonged civil war in Sri Lanka was unusually critical of the Secretariat and highlighted major shortcomings in the UN’s response to the fighting. The report,…
- Categories: Asia, Human Rights, Humanitarian Aid, Responsibility to Protect, Secretary-General
- Barbara Crossette
- • August 8, 2012
When leaders of the world start descending on the United Nations in September for the opening of a new General Assembly session, there will two new internationally well-known figures in prominent positions at the top of the organization. In…
- Categories: GOINGS-ON, Secretary-General
- Barbara Crossette
- • March 4, 2012
Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has chosen Jan Eliasson, a former Swedish foreign minister with years of experience as a key United Nations mediator and humanitarian relief director, to be his new deputy secretary-general. Eliasson, 71, was twice ambassador to the…
- Categories: GOINGS-ON
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