Churkin: UN Secretary-General is not subject to pressure

The Secretary-General of the United Nations, ban Ki-moon is Not affected by the pressure, and his election as Secretary General in 2006 there was a correct decision, said permanent Commissioner of Russia to the global organization Vitaly Churkin.
"in 2006 with the election of the UN Secretary General had made the right choice," said Churkin news Agency.- it is very important that ban Ki-moon has set up such an open dialogue with Russian President Vladimir Putin, Minister of foreign Affairs Sergey Lavrov ". According to Churkin, with the head of the Ministry of foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation, the Secretary-General " often communicates by phone and in person ".
according to his statement, as a rule, He meets with the Secretary General one-on-one and the "very carefully" refers to what he declares, and " takes this into account."" Actually, I must say that the General Secretary, the most recent period of time, started to speak on a number of issues pretty bold position, which have the ability to annoy the powerful. He was a man - and this is very important - listening, but He is Not affected by the pressure. In some cases it pressed: do this, don't do that, and He eventually acted in Accordance with their ideas, " drew the attention of the permanent Representative of the Russian Federation." in my view, from the Secretary-General in the modern world Assumes a certain superiority, but at the same time He can Not break away from the sinful world. I'm Not talking about the fact that most of the work - political - Secretary General leads on the location decisions taken by the Security Council ", - the diplomat added. Russia's permanent representative summed up, to be Secretary-General - " this is a very difficult job ", and "for this reason, already at the present time ignite debate on the question of when and how and whom to choose in the coming year" on this post. It is expected that the new administrative head of the UN is obliged for the first time to represent Eastern Europe." Ban Ki-moon was elected, when it was the turn of Asia, and now Eastern European group /UN/ absolutely desperate, because this surely must be authorized Eastern Europe, " the Russian diplomat said, noting that the Commissioners of the regional group even wrote on this issue a special letter to the President of the General Assembly." We support them, but I remind colleagues from time to time, when the Asian group has elected ban Ki-moon, his candidacy was proposed by the head of Latvia Vaira) Vike-Freiberga and figured among the six candidates, " - said Churkin." currently There are already some very good Eastern European candidates and in my opinion, it is worthy citizens, who have the opportunity to lead the organization. Among them are a woman - Irina Bokova. Apparently, there are women candidates. The last time he was elected ban Ki-moon, everything went fairly painlessly: in July began the discussion, and in early October, has already agreed. I do not exclude that this time will be more difficult ", - said the permanent Representative of the Russian Federation. During the interview, the Russian Envoy, explaining the counting of votes in the security Council on the Tribunal for the disaster Boeing in Ukraine, said that repeated attempts to adopt the draft will be doomed to failure. Recall, on Wednesday, Russia vetoed the adoption of the UN security Council decision on the establishment of the Tribunal to the crash of Boeing in Ukraine. was eleven countries. The Minister of foreign Affairs of Russia S. Lavrov Century said that the Collapse of the liner ? the result of criminal lawlessness, and Not a Danger to international peace and Security, which implies the Malaysian draft decision. According to the Minister, the UN security Council in the situation with the crash Airliners never created tribunals, and the idea of its creation is intended to provide the guilt of those who are considered responsible Washington. On Thursday the Director of the division of policy and communications Ministry of foreign Affairs of Ukraine Alexey Makeev said that the veto imposed by Russia in the UN Security Council on the conclusion about the creation of the international Tribunal for the downed Boeing in the Donbass 777, didn't stop the work on the creation of such a Tribunal. The plane crash Boeing 777 " Malaysian airlines ", which was flying from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur, 17 July last year over the territory of Donetsk region of Ukraine, controlled by DND. In the cabin of the ship was 298 people. Survivors of a plane crash there.


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