Ban retains lead in UN leader race
(Reuters)
Updated: 2006-09-29 15:08
UNITED NATIONS - South Korea's Foreign Minister Ban Ki-Moon retained his lead
in an informal Security Council poll for U.N. secretary-general on Thursday but
received one less vote than on the previous ballot, diplomats said.
South Korea's foreign minister, Ban
Ki-Moon, seen here, won a third informal straw poll in the United Nations
Security Council to decide who will succeed Kofi Annan as UN chief,
diplomats said. [AFP] |
But Ban was comfortably ahead of Shashi Tharoor, the Indian U.N.
undersecretary-general for public information, who was in second place.
The 15 Security Council ambassadors conducted an unofficial vote on the seven
candidates vying for the job to replace U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan, who
leaves office on December 31. The vote was unofficial but gives an indication of
the final results.
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