PHA-Exchange> Re: Selection of Next SG oof the UN

[David Woodward]

Any chance of preempting the process, and getting widespread civil
society backing for a suitable candidate before the process becomes
public? Even if we don't get who we want, it might at least force the
process into the open a bit more.....
 
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Subject: PHA-Exchange> Selection of Next SG oof the UN


 
One of the most important tasks to be addressed by the international
community in the months ahead is the selection of the person to succeed
Kofi Annan as Secretary-General of the United Nations when his term ends
on December 31, 2006. Yet the process by which that person is to be
chosen remains opaque and ill-defined. Although all member states have a
direct interest in seeing that the right person is selected, few states
have a role to play, or even a window into the process, as this most
sensitive and significant selection takes place.
 
We do hope the current process of selectin to be opened up to some
extent, by creating an environment in which changes can be adopted and
put in place to govern the next SG selection.
 
We need to start  discussions on ways in which the selection process can
be strengthened, in the short and the long term. Civil society should
have a role to play in this.
 
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