The UN General Assembly has voted unanimously to elect Ban Ki-moon for a second five-year term as the world body’s Secretary General, lauding him for bolstering the organization’s role and visibility in “trying circumstances”. The 192-nation assembly backed the 67-year-old former South Korean Foreign Minister by acclamation yesterday. Ban’s secondContinue Reading
Bank Ki-Moon – Secretary General,UN Asha-Rose Migiro – First Deputy Secretary General,UN Robert Zoellick – President,World Bank Koichiro Matsuura (Japan) – Director-General,UNESCO Margaret Chan(China) -Director-General,World Health Organisation(WHO) Hosni Mubarak(Egypt) – Chairman,NAM Jacques Diouf – Director General,FAO Haruhiko Kuroda(Japan) – President ,ADB Dominique Strauss-Khan(France) – President,IMF JaapContinue Reading
UNDP(United Nations Development Programme) is the UN’s global development network, an organization advocating for change and connecting countries to knowledge, experience and resources to help people build a better life. UNDP is functioning in 166 countries, working with them on their own solutions to global and national development challenges. WorldContinue Reading
Selection process of UN Secretary General o A candidate has to be recommended by the Security Council to the General Assembly. o This recommendation can be made only when a candidate secure at least 9 votes in the 15 member Security Council without any vetos. o Only one candidate canContinue Reading
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