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Slovakia to nominate foreign minister for UN chief post: PM

Xinhua, March 3, 2016 Adjust font size:

If the Smer-SD party becomes part of the government after the upcoming general election, it will nominate Foreign Minister Miroslav Lajcak for the UN secretary-general post, announced Slovak prime minister and Smer-SD chairman Robert Fico on Wednesday.

"If Lajcak accepts the nomination, he'll become the only candidate that we'll support. I can't imagine supporting anyone else," stressed Fico.

Jan Kubis, a former Slovak foreign affairs minister, who is currently Special Representative of the UN Secretary-General for Iraq and head of the United Nations Assistance Mission for Iraq (UNAMI), has also shown interest in running in the election for the new secretary-general.

So far, the official nominees are: current head of UNESCO Irina Bokova from Bulgaria, former Slovenian president Danilo Turk, former UN General Assembly chairman Srgjan Kerim from Macedonia, former Portuguese prime minister Antonio Guterres, former Croatian foreign affairs minister Vesna Pusic, former Montenegrin prime minister Igor Luksic, and former Moldovan foreign affairs minister Natialia Gherman.

UN launched the nomination process in December 2015. The term of current Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon will terminate at the end of this year. Endit