Russia, allies strategize ahead of UN Secretary-General election

Russia, BRICS subordinate states, and spouse countries person confirmed their readiness for adjacent coordination up of the predetermination of the 10th UN Secretary-General.

Director of Russia’s Department of International Organisations, Kirill Logvinov, met with the representatives of Moscow’s allies and outlined the criteria Russia applies to candidates for the apical job.

Russia said the adjacent UN main indispensable strictly observe the UN Charter principles, prosecute an impartial course, beforehand a unifying agenda, and “counter the dominance of Western officials wrong the Secretariat.”

Diplomats from BRICS subordinate states and spouse countries agreed to collaborate to guarantee owed information for the morganatic interests of the nations wrong the Global South and East.

Officials from the states volition be the interactive dialogues with nominees for the station of UN Secretary-General, scheduled to statesman astatine the UN General Assembly connected April 21.

The candidates see erstwhile Chilean President Michelle Bachelet Jeria, erstwhile President of Senegal, Macky Sall, and Rafael Grossi (Argentina), Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency.

Others are Virginia Gamba (Argentina), UN Secretary-Ge...