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Malcorra's UN potential nomination sets off speculation about several names to replace her
Malcorra faces major hurdles: Ban Ki-moon's successor should now come from Eastern Europe and the Security Council, where she could meet a UK veto 
Ban Ki-moon steps down on 31 December 2016, and there are already nine official candidates of which four are women, three of them from Eastern Europe. 
The leading candidate seems to be Fulvio Pompeo, head of Strategic Affairs from the cabinet chief's office; he is a very close advisor of president Macri. 
Finance minister Alfonso Prat-Gay who successfully steered negotiations with the holdouts; he believes foreign policy must be guided by trade and financial interests 
Acting speaker of the Senate Federico Pinedo, “understands politics, is close to Macri and has the respect of diplomatic circles, inside and outside Argentina” Argentina's foreign minister Susana Malcorra manifest intention of becoming the first woman Secretary General of the United Nations, which has the support from president Mauricio Macri administration has set out domestic and international speculation.
In effect Ms Malcorra faces two major hurdles in the global aspiration field: under UN rotating system the successor of Ban Ki-moon should now come from Easter Europe; equally significant any nomination needs the support of the Security Council, which means potentially overcoming a UK objection as one of the five permanent members with veto power.
This will be confirmed during the next week since before the end of the month all candidacies must be presented by their respective country governments, which means the formal presentation of Ms Malcorra's nomination by Argentina.
Ban Ki-moon steps down on 31 December 2016, and there are already nine official candidates of which four are women, three of them from Eastern Europe.
In Argentina meantime a raft of potential replacements to Ms Malcorra post have been mentioned among which the leading candidate seems to be Fulvio Pompeo, head of Strategic Affairs from the cabinet chief's office, He is a very close advisor of president Macri.
Another name is the current Finance minister Alfonso Prat-Gay who successfully steered negotiations with the holdout investment funds and is convinced that Argentina's foreign policy must be guided by trade and financial interests given the country's urgent need of foreign investment.
Radical party leader Ernesto Sanz has also been mentioned. He has close links with Macri, apparently he meets twice a week with the president, and the ruling political group “Let's Change”, received crucial support from Sanz during the electoral campaign. He was offered the Justice Department, but declined.
The acting speaker of the Senate Federico Pinedo, is another candidate. He has been with Macri from the very beginning of his political launching. “Federico understands politics, is close to Macri and has the respect of diplomatic circles, inside and outside Argentina”, according to cabinet sources.
Finally another name is that of Adalberto Rodriguez Giavarini, a former foreign minister with ex president Fernando de la Rúa and currently president of CARI, the Argentine foreign relations council. And Ms Virginia Gamba, an expert in security strategies and since 2013 head of the UN Disarmament Office.
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Read all commentsIt is to be hoped that argieland is at least 50 years away from providing the occupant of such important posts. If argieland were to provide the Secretary General of the United Nations, it would signal a new low in the worth and respect for the UN.
May 16th, 2016 - 07:41 am 0Let's take a look at some of argieland's activities. The obvious start point is the Falkland Islands. Not just the invasion, occupation and war, but actions since. It must be remembered that UN members sign up to a Charter agreeing that they will treat non-self governing territories in the same way as they would treat their own metropolitan areas. Does argieland comply with that? In fact, it's interesting to work one's way through the UN Charter and work out which Articles argieland breaches. Next, we can consider argieland's actions in respect of one of its closest neighbours, Uruguay. There were the lies about river pollution, actually perpetrated by an argie town, that it tried to use to interfere with the construction and operation of pulp mills, the instance where argieland refused to buy back its own currency that visitors had exchanged for Uruguayan currency, the unjustified sanctions against the port of Montevideo, the refusal to dredge the channels leading to Uruguay's up-river ports despite a treaty requirement and the blocking on international bridges. Then there's Paraguay. The most obvious example is the unjustified argie-inspired suspension of Paraguay from mercosur. Then there's the moving of a nuclear facility, without any discussion, close to the border. In the same vein as the Falklands, we can recall the argie intention to attack Chile.
One wonders why so many people reckon that the change of government, as yet unproven in respect of its international actions, justifies treating argieland as though it had achieved some form of national sainthood. Let's use the yardstick of when the “Malvinas Myth” is removed from the curriculum and the 20 years of it being rejected.
Ban Ki-Moon's office had to step in and release a statement clarifying Argentina's EEZ claims.
May 16th, 2016 - 10:04 am 0EEZ claims that someone had exaggerated.
What the UN actually said,
''With regard to the recommendations in respect of the submission made by Argentina, it is recalled that, previously, the Commission had already decided that it was not in a position to consider and qualify those parts of the submission that were subject to dispute and those parts that were related to the continental shelf appurtenant to Antarctica ''(see CLCS/64, paras. 76 and 77 and CLCS/76 para. 57) And Paragraph 3 of UN Press Release from Ban Ki-Moon's office dated 28th March 2016:
http://www.un.org/press/en/2016/sea2030.doc.htm
http://www.un.org/press/en/2016/sea2030.doc.htm
Don't waste too much time on this you guys. There is not a hope in hell she will get it.
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