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Bulgaria?s Georgieva unsettles race to be UN chief
UNITED NATIONS, United States: The newest candidate to be UN secretary-general, Kristalina Georgieva, says she may be a “latecomer” to the race, but still has strong credentials to become the first woman to lead the United Nations.
The 63-year-old Bulgarian eco**mist who served as European budget commissioner has shaken up the contest to succeed Ban Ki-moon, who steps down at the end of the year after serving two five-year terms. On Monday, she goes before the General Assembly for a two-hour question-and-answer session, hoping to persuade world diplomats that she is as ready as some of the other candidates who have been in the race for months. “I hope to be judged on merits, **t on the duration on the campaign trail,” Georgieva told AFP in an interview on Friday. “I’m a latecomer **t by choice, but by necessity. The Bulgarian government has invited me to join the race **w,” said Georgieva, who had been tipped to be a candidate for months. The Bulgarian government this week withdrew its support for Unesco chief Irina Bokova after she failed to make a strong showing during informal voting for the new UN chief at the Security Council. Despite the late entry, the former World Bank vice-president said she was **t “an unk**wn quantity” in international circles and at the United Nations, where last year she led a high-profile panel on humanitarian financing. “What I bring to the position is a breadth of experience in international development, humanitarian aid and dealing with fragility,” she said. Georgieva is considered a strong contender because she would satisfy calls for a woman to lead the United Nations and for a candidate from eastern Europe to be chosen, the only region that has yet to be represented in the top post. “It is important for the world that there be a woman secretary-general,” she said, adding that in the UN’s 71-year history “only half of the world” has been represented in the eight men that have held the top job. After five straw polls by the Security Council to pick the new UN chief, Portugal’s former prime minister Antonio Guterres has emerged as the frontrunner. On Wednesday, the contest will head into new territory when the five permanent Security Council members - Britain, France, China, Russia and the United States - will use colored ballots in the straw poll. أكثر... ??????? ??????: Bulgaria?s Georgieva unsettles race to be UN chief || ??????: ahlam1399 || ??????: اسم منتداك
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