FNs nuv. generalsekretær, sydkoreaneren Ban Ki-moon, går af ved udgangen af i år som 72-årig. Han har været generalsekretær siden 2007 og har til nytår siddet i to perioder.
Posten har altid været besat af en mand.
Pusic er den anden officielle kandidat til generalsekretærposten. Makedonien har indstillet diplomaten og erhvervsmanden Srgjan Kerim.
Den nuværende proces for at finde en afløser for Ban Ki-moon er første gang, at der bruges åbne nomineringer.
Hidtil er stillingen blevet besat ved mere eller mindre hemmelige forhandlinger, som har ført til, at de fem permanente medlemmer af Sikkerhedsrådet alene har valgt generalsekretæren.
De permanente medlemmer er USA, Rusland, Kina, Storbritannien og Frankrig.
Har været opstillingsklar længe
Britiske Independent skrev allerede i et interview med Pusic i maj 2015, at hun ville gå efter det store job i New York.
She has, in theory, a decent shot. The informal practice of regional rotation suggests that the next UN chief – to be elected to succeed Ban Ki-moon in 2016 – should be from Eastern Europe. There is also growing support for a female secretary-general, wrote the British daily.
The process was kickstarted in 2014 by UNESCO director-general Irina Bokova, who was nominated for the role by her native Bulgaria and is thought to be an early front-runner, but family ties to the communist-era elite may act against her.
Indeed, the crisis in Ukraine may make it difficult to find a compromise candidate from Eastern Europe, given the veto power of the five Security Council nations – the US, UK, France, China and Russia.
Should the Security Council choose outside Eastern Europe, former New Zealand prime minister Helen Clark (1999-2008), administrator of the UN Development Programme since April 2009, has excellent credentials and the UN inside track.
Mere om hende på
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helen_Clark
Hun vil dog være 66, hvis hun vælges. Pusic 63.
Ms Pusic believes Croatia’s path from a post-war nationalist, authoritarian system to an EU member, and its peaceful conclusion of border disputes with Slovenia are a potential model for conflict resolution.
“We can use all that experience in Africa and Asia, in Latin America, confronting dangerous, emotional symbol-based politics,” she says.
FNs generalsekretærer gennem tiden
Gladwyn Jebb – Storbritannien: 1945–1946 Fungerende generalsekretær indtil den første generalsekretær blev valgt
1 Trygve Lie – Norge: 2. februar 1946 – 10. november 1952 Gik af
2 Dag Hammarskjöld – Sverige: 10. april 1953 – 18. september 1961 Omkom i en mystisk flyulykke i Ndola i daværende Rhodesia
3 U Thant – Burma: 30. november 1961 – 1. januar 1972 Første generalsekretær fra Asien, gik af efter Folkerepublikken Kinas trussel om at nedlægge veto mod hans tredje periode i december1971. Var fungerende generalsekretær fra Hammarskjölds død.
4 Kurt Waldheim- Østrig: 1. januar 1972 – 1. januar 1982
5 Javier Pérez de Cuéllar – Peru: 1. januar 1982 – 1. januar 1992 Første generalsekretær fra Sydamerika.
6 Boutros Boutros-Ghali – Egypten: 1. januar 1992 – 1. januar 1997 Første generalsekretær fra Afrika, gik af efter USA's veto mod hans anden periode i december 1996.
7 Kofi Annan – Ghana: 1. januar 1997 – 1. januar 2007
8 Ban Ki-moon – Sydkorea: 1. januar 2007 –
Vesna Pusic (fra Wikipdia)
Vesna Pusić; (born 25 March 1953) is a Croatian sociologist and politician who serves as a First Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign and European Affairs in the centre-left Cabinet of Zoran Milanović. She is known as outspoken liberal and an advocate of European integration, gender equality and LGBT rights.
After becoming involved in politics in the early 1990s, Pusić served three consecutive terms as MP, having been elected to the Croatian Parliament in the 2000, 2003, and 2007parliament elections. She also ran in the 2009–10 presidential election, coming in fifth out of twelve candidates.
During her 2008–2011 parliament term she chaired the parliamentary committee for tracking the progress of Croatia's accession negotiations with the European Union. She also held the post of Vice-President of the European Liberal Democrat and Reform Party (ELDR).
Pusić is president of the Croatian People's Party – Liberal Democrats.
Since 1978 she has been working at the Sociology Department of the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences and teaching courses in the Theory of Industrial Democracy and the Sociology of Politics. In 1978, Pusić was one of seven women who initiated the first feminist organization in SFR Yugoslavia Žena i društvo and was widely criticized by the authorities at the time.
Pusić was one of the 28 founding members of the Croatian People's Party in 1990, after participating in the Coalition of People's Accord. She left party politics in 1992, but rejoined the same party in 1997 and was later its President between 2000 and 2008, and again since 2013.
She first entered the Parliament in the Croatian parliamentary election, 2000.
In 2005 and 2008, she was made the head of the National Committee for EU negotiations, the body that oversees accession negotiations and is composed of members of parliament as well as representatives of the President, the academic community, employers, and union representatives.
In 2006 and 2008 she was elected vice-president of ELDR.
In the Croatian presidential election, 2009–2010, Pusić was the HNS-LD candidate. She won 7.25% in the first round, placing fifth out of twelve candidates, and was thus eliminated from the second round.
After Kukuriku coalition won the 2011 Croatian parliamentary elections Pusić serves as a Minister of Foreign and European Affairs in the centre-left Cabinet of Zoran Milanović
After Radimir Čačić was expelled from the Croatian People's Party (HNS-LD) on 23 March 2013 because of his attempts to destabilize the party, she took the party presidency.
On September 3, 2015 Croatian Government decided to nominate Pusić as official Croatian candidate for 2016 UN Secretary-General selection.
Vesna Pusić is popular in the Croatian LGBT community. In 2011, Zagreb Pride attenders awarded her with the "gay friendly person of the decade". She has been regular attendant at Zagreb LGBT pride.
Her brother Zoran is a civil rights and peace activist.
Mrs. Pusić is married to a Lithuanian-American entrepreneur Jurgis Oniunas with whom she has a daughter Diana who is a film director.
