Election of the Secretary General of the United Nations will host Russia, said the permanent representative of New Zealand to the UN Gerard van Bohemen. The diplomat called the decision by the new Zealanders, who will preside over the UN security Council in September, the desire to avoid conflicts of interest.
“New Zealand has taken this decision to avoid conflict of interest, given that we have a candidate”, – quotes van Bohemen RIA Novosti.
From New Zealand in the upcoming elections of the UN Secretary General is a candidate ex-Prime Minister Helen Clark. The argument in favor of transferring the organization of the elections Russia is that from the beginning of October Russia will be the next Chairman of the security Council of the United Nations.
We will remind, in April of this year, the UN made changes to the election procedure of the Secretary-General. According to the introduced innovations, the candidates for the post of present yourself before the world’s governments at the hearings. This was part of a policy of transparency in the selection of the successor to ban Ki-moon.
