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UN to hold polls for next secretary-general in July

UNITED NATIONS: The United Nations Security Council has decided to hold the first of many expected rounds of secret “straw poll” voting on July 21 to choose the next secretary-general.

According to council president and French Ambassador Francois Delattre, he had set the date in a letter to the president of the General Assembly.

“The 15-member council is expected to decide by October on a single nominee who will be presented to the General Assembly for endorsement before he or she succeeds Ban Ki-moon on January 1,” he said, adding that eleven candidates including five women, are running for the top post.

Delattre said that the council is “playing its full role in this crucial decision for the future of the United Nations.”

According to a statement issued by the UN, Argentine Foreign Minister Susana Malcorra, New Zealand’s former prime minister and head of the UN Development Program Helen Clark and Antonio Guterres, a former prime minister of Portugal who led the UN refugee agency UNHCR are the strong candidates for the post.

 

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M. M. Alam is a Pakistan-based working journalist since 1981. Karachi University faculty gold medalist Alam began his career four decades ago by writing for Dawn, Pakistan’s highest circulating English daily. He has worked for region’s leading publications, global aviation periodicals including Rotors (of USA) and vetted New York Times as permanent employee of daily Express Tribune. Alam regularly covers international aviation and defense-related events including Salon Du Bourget (France), Farnborough (United Kingdom), Dubai (UAE). Alam has reported thousands of events and interviewed hundreds of people in Pakistan, UAE, EU, UK and USA. Being Francophone Alam also coordinates with a number of French publications.