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113 · 8 Maggie Farley, If You Want it, Forget it, Los Angeles Times, January 18, 2006 9 Nathanial Gronewold, Canada Proposes Changes to UN Secretary General Selection Process, Canadian Press, February 15, 2006 10 The African and Asian groups agreed that it was Asia's rurn-and they, together, hold a majority of General Assembly seats (107 out of 192 members).
The third straw, held on September 28, using the same procedure, turned out the following results: Name Country Current Position Ban Ki-moon South Korea Foreign Minister Jayantha Dhanapala Sri Lanka Senior Advisor to the President Surakiart Sathirathai Thailand Deputy Prime Minister UN Under Secretary-General Shashi Tharoor India for Communications & Public Information Prince Zeid al-Hussein Jordan Permanent Representative to the UN Ashraf Ghani Afghanistan Chancellor of Kabul University Vaira Vike-Freiberga Latvia President Oiher potential, but non-official, candidates being discussed in the press and in UN circles included: Name Country Current Position Kemal Dervis Turkey UN Development Program Administrator Goh Chok Tong Singapore Former Prime Minister Maleeha Lodhi Pakistan High Commissioner to the UK Niranjan Deva-Aditya Sri Lanka/UK European Parliament Member An indicative vote, known as straw poll, was applied, as the only method, to determine each candidate's rate of acceptance in the Security Council.
" 1· · The selection process Ban Ki-moon, the new UN Secretary-General was recommended by the Security Council on October 9 and appointed by the General Assembly on October 13.