New York, United States.
The UN Security Council and the UN General Assembly are launching the youth recruitment process to elect a general secretary for the period 2022-2026, a mandate to aspire the current head of the organization, Antonio Guterres, while Honduras advertise female candidacies.
The Prime Minister of Portugal, 71 years old, has a strong support in the Senate and the Council, all in front of the five permanent members (United States, Russia, China, France and the United Kingdom), keys to renovate su mandate por cinco años más.
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Various parties, however, criticize their management and consider that it has not been sufficient to defend human rights in the world.
In a map sent to the 193 members of the UN on the accession of the AFP, the General Assembly and the Security Council, they presented candidates “before the Council convenes its election in May or June”.
In honor of the UN Charter, the Council should recommend a candidate to the Assembly, who should formally appoint him.
In 2016, the ONU installed a process that sought a mayor transparency, and that prevailed audiences for the candidates.
“Candidates must possess leadership and management skills, an extensive experience of international relations and solid diplomatic, communication and multilingual skills”, the UN card states.
Guterres, the UN High Commissioner for Refugees from 2005 to 2015, presented his candidacy for a second term on 11 January. Nadie has just submitted his candidacy.
Since the creation of the UN in 1945, all general secretaries have been male.
In a card sent to the members of the ONU el miercoles, obtained by the AFP, Honduras llama to the presentation of female candidacies.
“We invite you to the States that the representative genuinely observes our compromises with the UN and will present female candidates, in compliance with the higher standards of efficiency, competence and integrity”, wrote the Honorable Ambassador to the UN, Mary Elizabeth Flores Flake.
It was about “initiating a nomination process where equality and inclusion are possible and their norm”, added.
In 2018 Flores presented himself as a candidate to chair the General Assembly of the UN, during the period before the Ecuadorian expatriate María Fernanda Espinosa, the first Latin American woman to chair the Assembly.
Flores, an outcast and the first woman to convert into a former UNU envoy, is the wife of Honduran President Carlos Flores (1998-2002). During his campaign for the presidency of the General Assembly, the defense of the nines will take its priority.