who will be the next Sec General of UN?

Answer 1

Ban Ki-moon of South Korea has been selected for the job- the security council with the 5 nations wielding vetoes are permanant members. The security council conducts a series of straw polls where each nation either "encourages" or "discourages" a candidate. Ban Ki-moon was the only candidate out of 7 with the support of all the 5 of the permanent members of the security council. The other 6 soon withdrew tier bids and Ki-moon was recommended to the UN general assembly, where he was voted in.

Answer 2

Ban Ki-moon of the Republic of south Korea coz he is from asia, and South korea is ally of USA.

After him may be someone from Europe or SOuth america

Answer 3

A quiet, noncontroversial, colorless man who is willing to do the bidding of the U.S.

Answer 4

Thats a closely guarded secret of USA

Answer 5

Indonesian ex president....Susilo.Bambang Yudoyono...???

Answer 6

Ban Ki-moon





8th Secretary-General of the United Nations
In office
1 January 2007 –
Preceded by Kofi Annan

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Born 13 June 1944
Eumseong, Korea
Spouse Yoo Soon-taek
Korean name
Hangul: 반기문
Hanja: 潘基文
Revised Romanization: Ban Gi-mun
McCune-Reischauer: Pan Kimun
Ban Ki-moon (IPA pronunciation: [bɑn gi mun]; born 13 June 1944 in Eumseong, Korea) is a South Korean politician and the Secretary General-elect of the United Nations. He will succeed Kofi Annan as Secretary-General on 1 January 2007.[1]

Ban was the Foreign Minister of the Republic of Korea (South Korea) from January 2004 to 1 November 2006. On 13 October 2006, Ban was elected to be the next Secretary-General by the United Nations General Assembly.

Contents [hide]
1 Education
2 Personal
3 Career
4 UN Secretary-General candidacy
5 Awards
6 References
7 External links



[edit] Education
Ban received his bachelor's degree in International Relations from Seoul National University in 1970 and earned a Master of Public Administration from the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University in 1985.


[edit] Personal
Ban is married and has a son and two daughters.[2] In addition to his native Korean, Ban is fluent in English and French.

As a high school student in the early 1960s, Ban met U.S. President John F. Kennedy in Washington, D.C. after winning an English language competition organized by the American Red Cross. He has said that it was after this meeting that he resolved to become a diplomat.


[edit] Career
Ban Ki-moon with Condoleezza Rice.Ban joined the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in May 1970 and worked his way up during the years of the Yusin Constitution.

His first overseas posting was to New Delhi, after which he worked in the United Nations Division at the foreign ministry's headquarters. At the time of Park Chung Hee's assassination, Ban had climbed to the position of First Secretary at South Korea's Permanent Observer Mission to the UN in New York City (South Korea only became a full UN member state on 17 September 1991). He subsequently assumed the post of Director of the United Nations Division. He has been posted twice to the Republic of Korea (ROK) Embassy in Washington, D.C. Between these two assignments he served as Director-General for American Affairs in 1990–1992. He was promoted to the position of Deputy Minister for Policy Planning and International Organizations in 1995. He was then appointed National Security Advisor to the President in 1996, and assumed the office of Vice Minister in 2000. His most recent post was as Foreign Policy Advisor to the President Noh Moo-hyun.

While serving as Ambassador to Austria, Ban was elected as Chairman of the Preparatory Commission for the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty Organization (CTBTO PrepCom) in 1999. During the ROK's Presidency of the 56th Session of the United Nations General Assembly (GA) in 2001, he worked as Chef de Cabinet of the President of the GA.

Ban has been actively involved in issues relating to inter-Korean relationships. In 1992, he served as Vice Chairman of the South-North Joint Nuclear Control Commission, following the adoption by South and North Korea of the Joint Declaration of the Denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula. In September 2005, as Foreign Minister, he played a leading role in the diplomatic efforts to adopt the Joint Statement on resolving the North Korean nuclear issue at the Fourth Round of the Six-Party Talks held in Beijing.


[edit] UN Secretary-General candidacy
In February 2006, Ban declared his candidacy to replace Kofi Annan as UN Secretary-General at the end of 2006. It is the first time a South Korean has run in the election for Secretary-General.[3]


Ban topped each of the four straw polls conducted by the UN Security Council on 24 July,[4] 14 September,[5] 28 September[6] and 2 October. [7]

In the 2 October informal poll, Ban received fourteen favorable votes and one "no opinion" from the fifteen members of the Security Council; the Japanese delegation the only nation not in full agreement. More importantly, Ban was the only one to escape a veto, while each of the five other candidates received at least one "no" vote from the five permanent members of the council — People's Republic of China, France, Russia, the United Kingdom, and the United States.[8] After the vote, Shashi Tharoor, who finished second, withdrew his candidacy[9] and China's Permanent Representative to the UN told reporters that "it is quite clear from today's straw poll that Minister Ban Ki-moon is the candidate that the Security Council will recommend to the General Assembly."[10]

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Ban Ki-Moon elected as next UN Secretary GeneralOn 9 October, the Security Council formally chose Ban as its nominee. On 13 October, the 192-member General Assembly adopted a resolution, by acclamation, appointing Ban as Secretary-General.


[edit] Awards
Ban has twice been awarded the Order of Service Merit in 1975 and 1986 by the Government of the Republic of Korea. For his accomplishments as an envoy, he received the Grand Decoration of Honour from the Republic of Austria in 2001. A year later, the government of Brazil bestowed the Grand Cross of Rio Branco upon him.

In September 2005, the Korea Society in New York honoured him with the James A. Van Fleet Award for his contributions to US-ROK friendship.[11]