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#NextUNSG | Do you believe @Lana_Nusseibeh’s late entry into the selection process for the next #UN Secretary-General is fair and just, given that the other contenders have spent months campaigning?
33%Yes, she is on her right.
54%No. Shouldn't be allowed.
13%The race needed it.
85 votes • Final resultsHow important will receiving the backing of the US be for the next UN secretary-general?
"It’s symbolically, financially and politically vital to have the trust and the backing of the US."
MarĂa Fernanda Espinosa, is a former Ecuador's Minister of National Defense, yet she was nominated by Antigua and Barbuda as #NextUNSG candidate.
In the 6th UN straw poll (the first color-coded round), she received 3 Encourage, 9 Discourage, and 3 No Opinion votes. Facing 3 potential P5 vetoes.
Since entering this process, I have sought to put forward substantive proposals and advance informed debate on how the UN must be led, managed and renewed as it approaches its centenary in an age of radical interdependence. My interview with Monocle Magazine, published today: monocle.com/affairs/diplomac…
At tomorrow's 7th #UNSG straw poll, the UN Security Council is making an unprecedented move by reverting to non-color-coded ballots after using them on Oct 16.
This shields late-entrant @Lana_Nusseibeh in her first test and allows the P5 to gauge support without showing their hand, but it prolongs the race.
Annalena Baerbock is also a former President of the UN General Assembly (September 9 2025, to September 8 2026).
Activists confronted former German foreign minister Annalena Baerbock at Sweden’s Uppsala University on Monday, accusing her of complicity in Israel’s genocide in Gaza.
Baerbock was delivering the Dag Hammarskjöld Lecture, jointly hosted by the university and the Dag Hammarskjöld Foundation. Protesters challenged her remarks defending attacks on civilian infrastructure and Germany’s military support for Israel.
In October 2024, Baerbock argued that civilian sites could lose their protected status if abused by Hamas. Germany approved €485.1m—about $554m—in arms exports to Israel between October 2023, and May 2025.
Open letter | A group of former Foreign Ministers from Latin America and the Caribbean express deep concern over the UN Secretary-General selection process, warning that the informal consensus prioritizing their region to succeed @antonioguterres has been disrupted by late entries.
Via @SusanaMalcorra
French Foreign Minister Jean-Noël Barrot (@jnbarrot) firmly rejects the idea of Viktor Orbán becoming the next UN Secretary-General. diplomatie.gouv.fr/fr/presse…
For the 34th time, the UN General Assembly called for an end to the US economic, commercial and financial embargo on #Cuba – but with the weakest backing for the resolution in two decades.
In September 2024, the now UN Secretary-General candidate La #Nusseibeh said in a letter to the editor of @TheEconomist that, “[T]he UAE is not providing weapons or any other support to the Rapid Support Forces or any of the warring parties in Sudan.”
The letter followed the publication of the first #UN Panel of Experts on #Sudan’s report, which included conclusions of “credible allegations” that the #UAE was providing military support to the RSF through Chad. hrw.org/news/2026/10/28/uae-…
The UN Times retweeted
One of the reasons Nusseibeh waited so long to announce her #NextUNSG candidacy, according to one diplomat who spoke to @EnvoyUNEMAG, is her Palestinian ancestry. Nusseibeh’s father, Zaki Nusseibeh, comes from a prominent #Palestinian family with roots in Jerusalem. One diplomat expressed concerns that the current administration in Washington may not go along with such candidate. envoymag.com/analysis/lana-n…
The international community needs to recover the capacity not merely to contain wars, but to end them. The #UN in general, and the next Secretary-General in particular, can help. And she or he can start with #Sudan. regroupplaybook.org/cp/22241…
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The UN General Assembly just adopted resolution titled: Necessity of ending the economic, commercial and financial embargo imposed by the United States of America against Cuba.
The vote was 130 in favor, 17 against, 25 abstentions.
Full text of resolution attached.
This is the 34th year the General Assembly has votes on the matter.
The first vote was in 1992. That year 59 countries backed the resolution, three opposed it, 71 abstained and 46 did not vote.
In 2015, 2016, and 2017 the vote count jumped to 191 in favor.
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BREAKING | #TĂĽrkiye is preparing to nominate Feridun Sinirlioglu, OSCE secretary-general and former foreign minister, as its candidate for UN Secretary-General. Timing depends on the outcome of the next straw poll.
By @leventkemaI: turkiyetoday.com/nation/excl…
The UN Times retweeted
How would SinirlioÄźlu's candidacy look from a UN regional rotation viewpoint?
For electoral purposes TĂĽrkiye belongs to "Western European & Other States" Group, whose most recent SG is Guterres, the 4th from WEOG.
TĂĽrkiye caucuses with Asia-Pacific, whose last SG was Ban 2007-16.
Exclusive: Turkey set to announce its candidate for UN Secretary-General within days: Feridun Sinirlioglu, a veteran diplomat.
Thursday is key: Ankara’s final call will hinge on how the Security Council’s straw poll leans. An announcement is expected Friday evening. turkiyetoday.com/nation/excl…
BREAKING | #TĂĽrkiye is preparing to nominate Feridun Sinirlioglu, OSCE secretary-general and former foreign minister, as its candidate for UN Secretary-General. Timing depends on the outcome of the next straw poll.
By @leventkemaI: turkiyetoday.com/nation/excl…
Worth watching to make up your own mind | @Lana_Nusseibeh & UN Member States and representatives of civil society — interactive dialogue for the position of the next Secretary-General of the United Nations. webtv.un.org/en/asset/k18/k1…
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"Multipolarity is a fact. Multilateralism is a choice. And the future depends on the choices we make together" — food for thought by Rebeca Grynspan (@RGrynspan), a front-runner to become the next UN Secretary-General.
It is not every day that the White House features the #UN (emblem) in a social media post.
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Today. One of the ugliest scenes ever seen at the UN General Assembly | A verbal altercation erupted between the U.S. ambassador to the UN (@USAmbUN) and the Cuban foreign minister
Bruno RodrĂguez Parrilla (@BrunoRguezP).
Via @jchristenson_