First straw poll for new UN Secretary General
The problem of being on a plane or rather five planes for two days is that you miss a lot of things. Ted Cruz and his speech at the Republican Convention and the first straw poll for the next UN Secretary General As my readers know I have and am a strong supporter that the next UN Secretary General should be a woman and I also support regional rotation. We have to remember that this is decided by the 15 members of the UN Security Council who may work by different criteria than the rest of us. There is no veto in this round by the Permanent Members of the Security Council - the P5 - all the papers of the same color and ask Member states to put their mark against three options encourage, dis-encourage and no opinion. Was I surprised that Former Portuguese Prime Minister Antonio Guterres (12 encourage, 0 dis-encourage and 3 no opinion) top the first poll and is now considered by the media as the front run...