Four candidates for the position of United Nations (UN) Secretary General will participate in interactive dialogues with member states and civil society starting Tuesday as efforts to select the organisation’s first female leader ramps up.
The dialogues were first introduced during the selection of the last UN Chief in 2016 allowing candidates to present their visions for the organisation amidst efforts to make the process more open and transparent.
The next Secretary General will replace incumbent Antonio Guterres whose second and final five-year term ends on December 31.
The selection of the world’s top diplomat moves into the next face this week.
The process is unfolding at a time of huge disruption and mounting criticism that the global organisation is increasingly sidelined on the major geopolitical questions of the day, in large part due to an ineffective Security Council and its aging composition that continues to be a drag on the entire UN system.
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