In the German government bluntly refuted statements of the Russian foreign Ministry that German Chancellor Angela Merkel (Angela Merkel) made during the G20 summit in the Chinese Hangzhou for the nomination of a Bulgarian European Commissioner of Kristalina Georgieva for the post of UN Secretary General. “Dissemination at an official level objectively false information is an unfriendly action,” – said the representative of the foreign Ministry of Germany Martin Schaefer (Martin Schaefer) Monday, September 12, in Berlin.
Rejected charges of interference of Berlin in the selection of a new head of the UN and the government spokesman of Germany Steffen Seibert (Steffen Seibert). He stressed that at the moment for this position ten candidates and Georgieva is not included in their number. Yesterday in the Bulgarian press there were publications that Merkel allegedly had to persuade Russian President Vladimir Putin to support the candidacy Georgieva is the current head of UNESCO Irina Bokova, which is in February of 2016 was promoted to the post of UN Secretary-General the permanent mission of Bulgaria to the United Nations.
The official representative of Russian foreign Ministry Maria Zakharova on 11 September said that Berlin allegedly tried to influence Moscow’s position, and added that these attempts have remained inconclusive. The German side insists that this conversation on the sidelines of the G20 summit between the leaders of Germany and Russia was not.
Since 2007 the post of UN Secretary General is South Korean diplomat ban Ki-moon, his term of office expires on 1 January next year.
