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On
Next SG Straw
Poll, ICP Asks
Rycroft of
Rudd, Qs on US
Prez & USG
Posts
By Matthew
Russell Lee
UNITED
NATIONS, July
21 -- As the
UN Security
Council held
its first
closed-door
straw poll on
the 12 current
candidates to
replace Ban
Ki-moon as UN
Secretary
General on
July 21, Inner
City Press
asked UK
Ambassador
Matthew
Rycroft if it
was too late
for
Australia's
Kevin Rudd or
others to get
into the race.
Video
here.
Rycroft
replied that
it is not too
late,
candidates can
enter after
the first
straw poll
pursuant to
the Council's
earlier
letter. US
Ambassador
Samantha
Power, who
took no
questions,
named issues
for the Next
SG, from
counter-terrorism
to the
sustainable
development
goals.
One wondered
if the Obama
administration
has conferred
with Hillary
Clinton on its
position - and
what would
happen if the
Security
Council hasn't
decided later
in the Fall
and the US
presidential
race is still
open.
French
Ambassador
Francois
Delattre said
counter-terrorism
is a separate
issue; one
wanted to ask
him if France
is as before
linking Next
SG to an Under
Secretary
General
position,
different this
time than the
UN
Peacekeeping
that Herve
Ladsous has
nearly
destroyed.
Venezuela's
Rafael Ramirez
spoke at
nearly the
same time and
was asked if
he supports
one of the two
(for now)
Latin American
candidates. End of video here; we've noted
that Alicia
Barcena has
been in New
York.
After the
straw polling,
Ambassadors
said no
comment and it
went well;
Council
President Koro
Bessho said
much the same
on UNTV. Inner
City Press
asked him if
the actual
results had
been given to
the President
of the General
Assembly.
Bessho bgan to
say yes, then
clarified, no.
Some process.
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