Posted on 09/28/2006 2:58:45 PM PDT by SmithL
UNITED NATIONS -- South Korea's foreign minister was the only candidate for U.N. secretary-general to receive the required majority of votes from the U.N. Security Council in an informal ballot conducted Thursday, diplomats said.
Ban Ki-Moon received 13 votes in favor, one against and one of no opinion, China's U.N. Ambassador Wang Guagnya said. Despite that dominating lead, the secrecy of the ballot meant it was not known whether he got the necessary approval of all five veto-wielding members of the council.
The informal ballot is only meant to give the candidates a rough idea of where they stand, and the results are difficult to interpret. Ban did worse than in the most recent informal poll, held Sept. 14, when he received 14 votes in favor and one against.
However, none of other six candidates to succeed Secretary-General Kofi Annan even got the necessary nine favorable votes to make their campaigns viable. That could either give Ban the momentum he needs to win or clear the field for more people to enter the race against him.
The 15 council nations checked one of three boxes for each candidate: "Encourage,""discourage," and "no opinion." In the next straw poll, set for Monday, the five veto-wielding members of the council will use different colored ballots than the other 10. A veto from one of the five — Britain, China, France, Russia or the United States — could doom their campaigns.
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You got that straight; or just give it to North Korea.
The US wont listen to him anyhow. :)
With Kofi's corrupt tenure coming to an end -- now would be a good time to go ahead and close the UN down completely.
Bolton for U.N. secretary-general!!!
I would have gone with Hugo "El Gigante" Chavez ... and then moved the UN to Caracas.
I prefer Mark Steyn. He is Canadian. It'd be perfect.
Sorry,
Subtle doesn't work on me, tell me what you really think.
; )
So I take it that this Ki-Moon fellow is the sort of South Korean that would happily serve as a spokesman for the North Korean government? If so, I've got an idea. Let's de-fund the UN once and for all.
South Koreans seem to be leaning back toward North Korea, so I don't know this is that good for anyone.
Another loser, amongst many losers!
Good. At least it won't be Bill Clinton.
South Korean moves ahead in race for U.N. top post
Reuters | 9/15/06 | Evelyn Leopold
Posted on 09/15/2006 4:03:06 AM EDT by bruinbirdman
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