Report: Obama Privately Campaigning to Take Over as Secretary-General of United Nations

[Miss Annie]

Report: Obama Privately Campaigning to Take Over as Secretary-General of United Nations (http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2016/01/report-obama-privately-campaigning-to-take-over-as-secretary-general-of-united-nations/)

Barack Obama has privately campaigned to succeed Ban Ki-moon as United Nations Secretary General at the end of 2016.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is also reportedly working with moderate Arab States to prevent this transition.
The Jerusalem Post reported:

Netanyahu remembers well just how US President Barack Obama brushed aside Israeli objections and went ahead with the P5+1 nuclear agreement with Iran.

Now, Netanyahu is reportedly planning some personal payback.

According to the Kuwaiti newspaper Al-Jarida, Netanyahu will make common cause with moderate Arab governments in order to sabotage Obama’s plan to succeed Ban Ki-moon when the South Korean diplomat ends his term as United Nations secretary-general on December 31 of this year.

Al-Jarida quoted sources as saying that Obama has already discussed the issue of running for secretary-general with Democrats, Republicans, and Jewish officials in the US.

The sources said that once Netanyahu got wind of Obama’s plans, the prime minister began to make efforts to submarine what he has referred to as “the Obama project.”

“Wasn’t eight years of having Obama in office enough?” Netanyahu is quoted in the Kuwaiti daily as telling associates. “Eight years during which he ignored Israel? And now he wants to be in a position that is liable to cause us hardships in the international arena.”

[Zippyjuan]

Info on the process: http://www.unelections.org/?q=node/71


The election process

1. The Security Council recommends a candidate for appointment to the General Assembly, an issue to be “discussed and decided at a private meeting.” [1]
2. The Secretary-General “shall be appointed by the General Assembly upon the recommendation of the Security Council,” traditionally through a GA resolution.[2]

-The appointment constitutes an “important question” requiring a two-thirds voting majority.[3]
- The Secretary General will be appointed for five years, with the option of reappointment for a further five-year-term.[4]
-The GA resolved that “it would be desirable for the Council to proffer one candidate only…and for debate on the nomination in the General Assembly to be avoided.” [5]
There is no formal appointment timetable, though GA resolution 51/241 states that “the Secretary General should be appointed as early as possible, preferably no later than one month before the date on which the term of the incumbent expires.” [6] With only a few exceptions, Secretary-General elections are typically quick and routine. Reappointments have been largely uncontested. [7]


Regional Rotation

Historically, the Secretary-General has been selected based on an informal system of regional rotation. GA Resolution 51/241 states, “due regard shall continue to be given to regional rotation and shall also be given to gender equality.”

Regional distribution of the post of Secretary-General to date has taken the following order:

• Western Europe (Trygvie Lie, Dag Hammarskjold)
• Asia (U Thant)
• Western Europe (Kurt Waldheim)
• Latin America and the Caribbean (Javier Perez de Cuellar)
• Africa (Boutros Boutros-Ghali, Kofi Annan)
• Asia (Ban Ki-moon)
To date, no Secretary-General has hailed from Eastern Europe.

Traditionally, candidates from the Permanent Five members of the Security Council (China, France, Russia, the United Kingdom, and the United States), are not considered for the position of Secretary-General to avoid further concentration of power within the UN. As with regional rotation, this is a matter of precedent and convention, rather than a written rule.

While former officeholders represent a wide range of countries, there has never been a female Secretary-General.

So we have a few potential issues with Obama going for the job.

First- the job has not been given to anybody from the permanent members of the Security Council- which includes the United States. The Security Council help pick the nominee- including Russia and China which could say no to his nomination (doubt Putin would support it!).

Second- it has been traditionally rotated between different regions of the world- the "next up" is Eastern Europe- not The Americas.

Third- the appointment is usually made a month before the current term runs out. That would mean by the end of November, 2016. A president of the United States is not allowed to accept any such post while still in office- he will be in office until January, 2017.

I would not put money on Obama being in the running for Secretary General of the United Nations.

[Miss Annie]

Info on the process: http://www.unelections.org/?q=node/71



So we have a few potential issues with Obama going for the job.

First- the job has not been given to anybody from the permanent members of the Security Council- which includes the United States. The Security Council help pick the nominee- including Russia and China which could say no to his nomination (doubt Putin would support it!).

Second- it has been traditionally rotated between different regions of the world- the "next up" is Eastern Europe- not The Americas.

Third- the appointment is usually made a month before the current term runs out. That would mean by the end of November, 2016. A president of the United States is not allowed to accept any such post while still in office- he will be in office until January, 2017.

I would not put money on Obama being in the running for Secretary General of the United Nations.

That is comforting! :D

[TheTexan]

President Obama is campaigning to become a secretary?

[navy-vet]

That is comforting! :D
ditto on that!

[TheNewYorker]

I could see it. Barack seems to have some magical powers and an ego that knows no bounds.

He went from being a nobody community organizer, to senator, to leader of the free world in no time. He was elected a second time after a horrible first term. Next logical step is leader of the UN.

He's unstoppable it seems

[Origanalist]

That is comforting! :D

I would look for a second opinion....just saying.