Who Will Be the Next UN Secretary-General? has posted the results of the first Security Council straw poll in the race to succeed Kofi Annan. The members of the Security Council voted on the four individuals who have been formally nominated by member states. South Korea's Ban and India's Tharoor did relatively well, and are viewed more favorably by Security Council members than the candidates from Sri Lanka and Thailand. But there is still a lot of time for other candidates to be nominated, and many observers think that Annan's successor will be someone who's not formally in the race yet. The next straw poll will be held in about a month.
Posted by armand at July 25, 2006 02:23 PM | TrackBack | Posted to International Affairs