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On Next SG Straw Poll, ICP Asks Rycroft of Rudd, Qs on US Prez & USG Posts

By Matthew Russell Lee

UNITED NATIONS, July 21 -- As the UN Security Council held its first closed-door straw poll on the 12 current candidates to replace Ban Ki-moon as UN Secretary General on July 21, Inner City Press asked UK Ambassador Matthew Rycroft if it was too late for Australia's Kevin Rudd or others to get into the race. Video here.

   Rycroft replied that it is not too late, candidates can enter after the first straw poll pursuant to the Council's earlier letter. US Ambassador Samantha Power, who took no questions, named issues for the Next SG, from counter-terrorism to the sustainable development goals.

One wondered if the Obama administration has conferred with Hillary Clinton on its position - and what would happen if the Security Council hasn't decided later in the Fall and the US presidential race is still open.

  French Ambassador Francois Delattre said counter-terrorism is a separate issue; one wanted to ask him if France is as before linking Next SG to an Under Secretary General position, different this time than the UN Peacekeeping that Herve Ladsous has nearly destroyed.

Venezuela's Rafael Ramirez spoke at nearly the same time and was asked if he supports one of the two (for now) Latin American candidates. End of video here; we've noted that Alicia Barcena has been in New York.

After the straw polling, Ambassadors said no comment and it went well; Council President Koro Bessho said much the same on UNTV. Inner City Press asked him if the actual results had been given to the President of the General Assembly. Bessho bgan to say yes, then clarified, no. Some process.



 

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